Black and grey Botanical tattoo of a daisy with a yin and yang centre, shaded petals and outlined edges, on the inner forearm.

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Daisy with yin and yang centre on a forearm

Botanical · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A large daisy with layered petals sits on the inner forearm, its centre a black and white yin and yang symbol. The petals are outlined in dark ink and shaded with soft grey gradients that give them depth. The tattoo sits centrally on the skin, with a knitted blanket and white fringe softly out of focus behind it.

Botanical Forearm Daisy Flower Yin yang

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit down, the lot of you, and mind the kettle. You want the story of Ada Pryce and the daisy at Sallow Lock, and I'll tell it the way my grandad told it to me, which is to say with the lies left in.

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Ada ran the coal boat Drift Mercy, black as a chimney inside. Tomas Vell ran the flour boat Patience, white as a wedding cake. They shared that lock on the Leam for eleven summers and never once said good morning. Each of them was certain the other had the easier water.

One August the bottom gate jammed with river weed, and both boats sat in the cut with the sun on the stone and nobody willing to be the first to shout. Ada noticed a daisy pushing up through the coping where the mortar had gone. She climbed out, meaning to pull it, and found a stone tangled in its roots, split clean in two. One half was slate, the other chalk, and when she pressed them together they fitted like they had never been apart. She walked the length of the towpath, held out the chalk half, and dropped it into Tomas's open hand without a word.

They had the gate open by dusk, working the paddles side by side. By morning there was a flour sack tied to the Drift Mercy's rail and a scuttle of coal on the Patience's roof, and the two of them were arguing about which was the heavier load. The daisy is still there, if you go looking. Mind the stone, though. It is the only thing in that cut that never once argued about who got the lock first.