Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a dog's face inside a diamond with rosebuds, on the calf.

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Dog portrait in a diamond on a calf

Dotwork · Calf · Black and grey · Photo

A dog's face, with pointed ears and large eyes, is shown in close detail within a diamond outline. Fine stippled dotwork and short linework build the shading, and small rosebuds sit at the sides and base of the diamond. The tattoo is in black and grey and fills the centre of the frame on a calf.

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Dear Ned, you will think I have lost my wits, but the sorting office has a dog now. Her name is Dot, a black-and-white bruiser with ears like two open envelopes, and she walked in out of the sleet on Tuesday and has not walked out since.

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She sits on the parcel scales as if she has been paid to. Mr Pryce from the bakery tried to shift her with a sausage roll, and she looked at him over it until he gave her the sausage roll too. Mrs Oakes keeps rosebud seeds in a tin by the window each spring, and Dot has taken to lying with her nose pressed to the lid, breathing in the dry dust of them as if she is counting petals.

On Friday a notice came round from the Holbeach police about a terrier answering to Dot, last seen near the Cambridge coach. Dot heard me reading it aloud and went under the counter with a face like a wet Sunday. I sat with the form for an hour, pen above the box marked Forwarding address, and the ink would not move. In the end I wrote Not known here and posted it to nobody.

Now she sleeps in the diamond of lamplight the window throws across the floor, chin on her paws, and every time the bell goes she lifts her head as though the next parcel might be hers. I have started telling the postmen she is on the books. Come at Christmas and see for yourself. Yours, Edie.

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