Black and grey fine line dandelion tattoo with seeds drifting away, on the calf.

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Dandelion with drifting seeds on a calf

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A dandelion seed head is drawn in black ink on the lower leg, with several seeds drifting away diagonally up the skin. The linework is fine and fades into soft grey shading across the seed tufts, while the stem is shaded more heavily. The pale skin and plain background keep the focus on the tattoo.

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Dear Tom, the big top came down on Tuesday, and we folded it in the wet grass behind the lorries like a sheet nobody wants to be left holding. Mr Pemberton says the Lisbon booking is still on, though he said the same about Carlisle, and Carlisle is where the bank took the second elephant. Bramble is still with us. She sleeps standing up now, which Mrs Okafor says is a sign of old age in horses and common sense in everyone else.

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Yesterday, on the dead field past the fuel tanks, a little boy from the farm cottages came to watch us pack. He had a dandelion clock the size of his fist and he kept blowing at it, one puff after another, while his mum shouted from the gate. The seeds went up over the caravans and kept going, higher than the flag, and I stood there with a crate of wire on my shoulder and counted until I lost them against the sky. Forty-one, I think. Forty-one is a good number for a show that has stopped being one.

I have pressed one for you between the pages of the old programme, the one with your name still printed under the Flying Fenwicks, so mind it doesn't blow away on the train. Come home at Easter if you can. We could tie the old rope between the poplars and I would teach you to walk it with your arms out, like a seed head that hasn't decided where to go yet. Love, Nell

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