Black and grey botanical tattoo of a lavender sprig with fine linework on the inside of a forearm, against a white striped wall.

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Lavender sprig on a forearm

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A lavender sprig with slender leaves and several flower spikes runs diagonally up the inner forearm, with the stems tied at the base. The linework is fine and dark, with light grey shading in the leaves and flower heads. The arm is shown against a plain white slatted wall, and the wearer's striped dress is visible at the edge of the frame.

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Dear Win, the parcel should reach you by Thursday if the post at Hadleigh is still running on its own strange clock. I have tied the sprigs the way Mother taught us, twelve stems to a bundle, heads down, with the string doubled twice at the base so nothing slips loose on the journey. Please do not untie it over the good rug.

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The lavender came off the chalk bank behind the lock-keeper's cottage, where the bees go half mad in July. Mr Garrod, who rents us the field, swears the blue is sweeter there than anything grown in Mitcham. I cut it at seven in the morning with the dew still on. You know how the colour holds if you hang it in the dark, so I kept the bundles in the coal shed for a week and let the smell settle into the sacking.

Mr Pryce came by on Tuesday asking after the wedding dress. I told him the dress was finished, the bridesmaids were sulking, and I had not yet decided whether he deserved the last of the sugared almonds. He laughed and said I was getting too much like my aunt. I took that as a kindness, though I am not certain it was meant as one.

Put a sprig in the drawer with your gloves. Give the rest to Ada, who will call it a foolish present and then sleep with it under her pillow for a month. Yours, as ever, Edie.

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