Fine line and dotwork foxglove sprig tattoo in black ink running diagonally across the inner forearm.

Foxglove sprig on the forearm

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A single foxglove stem with several bell-shaped flowers and small leaves runs diagonally down the forearm, ending in a curled tip. The outlines are fine and even, and the petals are partly filled with stippled dots that give soft shading. The ink is black and grey, and the plain pale background keeps the design as the clear focus.

Fine line Botanical Dotwork Forearm Flower Stem Leaves

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Ruth, The big top came down in Dorset on Tuesday, and the last of the canvas went into the lorry on Thursday with sawdust still caught in its folds. You asked whether we'd kept the tent poles. We have. Father wouldn't let the scrap man have them, though God knows what we'll do with twelve lengths of ash and no ground to stand them on.

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The foxgloves are out along the lane behind the winter field now. Mrs Pyle's boy says they're poison, every bit of them, leaves and seed alike, and that a careless child could kill a horse with a mouthful. I told him the same could be said of the ringmaster's cigars. He laughed, which is more than the clowns have managed since the council closed the pitch.

On Sunday Mr Abernethy finally cut the old elephant's feed to half. Nobody said it out loud. We just stood in the straw and watched her eat the last carrots as if they were the only good thing left in England.

I've been picking the bells off the stems and laying them on the caravan step to dry, so I can bring them to you at Easter. Don't tell Father. He'd say I'm going soft. Write back and tell me whether the new yard in Kent has a proper gate.

Yours, Mags