Colour tattoo of a branching forget-me-not sprig with blue flowers and green leaves, outlined in black, on the thigh.

Forget-me-not sprig on the leg

Botanical · Thigh · Colour · Photo

A branching sprig of five blue forget-me-not flowers, with two buds, green leaves and a thin green stem, is outlined in black. Each flower has a yellow centre with a black middle, and the petals are shaded with lighter blue highlights. The design sits on bare skin against a plain, softly lit background.

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The showman wanted the Waltzer repainted before Lincoln, and nobody else on the lot could tell a forget-me-not from a speedwell, so the job came to me by default. I sat on an upturned crate behind the dodgem pens with a jar of cerulean and a rag that smelled of linseed, while the generator coughed and somebody's kids argued over candyfloss.

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Ronnie Mace had driven the big wagon for nineteen seasons. He never said much, but he kept a pressed sprig of the real flower in his wallet, gone the colour of weak tea. When I asked where he'd got it, he said a churchyard in Hull and a girl who'd left him at the gates, and then he changed the subject to the price of diesel. That was the nearest he came to telling anyone anything.

I painted the sprig with five heads, yellow eyes and black hearts, and two buds at the top that hadn't opened yet. Ronnie watched from the cab steps and said it looked too tidy for a fairground. I said flowers don't care where they're painted. He went quiet, then asked if I'd put one on the inside of the gate, where only the operator sees it when he locks up at night.

I did. On the last night at Lincoln, the lights went down one bank at a time, and Ronnie pulled the gate shut, stopped, and stood with his hand flat on the blue petals for a long moment. Then he took out his wallet, set the pressed flower beside the painted one, and walked off towards the wagons without looking back.

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