Colour tattoo of a cartoon family in a gold ornate frame with a green gem and a burger, on the calf.

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Cartoon family in ornate frame on a calf

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Three views of a lower leg show a cartoon family group inside a gold ornate picture frame topped with a green gemstone, with a stacked burger at the base. The linework is bold and outlined, with flat colour fills in pink, purple, blue, yellow and green and soft gradient shading in the background. The frame fills most of the composition, and the family figures are arranged across the centre with the burger anchoring the bottom.

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The lift in Ashgrove House had been broken since the spring, so Mrs Pellow climbed the nine flights with her shopping every evening and told anyone on the landing about it. Nobody listened much. The family on the ninth floor ran a hatch in the car park below, with a hand-painted sign that said only BURGERS, and the father wore an apron with a stripe of red sauce across the hem that never came out in the wash.

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Their daughter Vivi wanted them painted. A frame-seller came through the estate one Saturday with a single gilt frame left over from a church sale, all curls and tendrils, with a green stone set at the top like the eye of a sleeping cat. "Put us in that," Vivi said, "and nobody can move us out." Tobin Rahn, who lived on the fourth floor and had once painted the bins, agreed to do it for three burgers. He set the family up in front of the hatch at dusk, the sky going pink over the car park, and he gave the baby a keyboard, the older girl a fist raised high, the mother a pair of red glasses, and the father a spatula he held like a sceptre.

Once the paint dried, the family stopped coming down. Mrs Pellow knocked on the door one evening and found the flat smelling of onions and warm bread, but no one at the table. The frame hung in the hall with the hatch sign leaning against the skirting beneath it, and the hatch in the car park stayed shut.

It was the burger at the bottom of the frame that gave the game away. Each week it was a little fuller, the layers thicker, the seeds on the bun a little more. Mrs Pellow began leaving her shopping on the mat outside the door, and each week it came back in a paper bag with her name written on it. She never did get the lift fixed. She said she didn't need to.

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