Black and grey tattoo of a musical staff, treble clef and notes with swirls across the top of a foot, with red toenail polish.

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Musical staff and notes on a foot

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A foot with a tattoo of a musical staff, treble clef, notes and ornamental swirls spanning the top of the foot and extending towards the outer edge. The design uses black linework with grey shading on the staff lines and note heads. The image is a close photograph of the foot against a textured green carpet, with the toes painted red.

Other Music Musical staff Treble clef Musical note Swirl

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Tom, the pears came in early this year, so Mum has us on the ladders before the dew's off. You'd laugh at me. I've got a pocket full of pencil stubs because I've started doing what you used to do, drawing lines on anything that stays still. Yesterday it was the bark of the old Bramley, five lines running up the trunk like a stave, and the wasps sat on the top one like a row of crotchets.

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The man on the fruit stall in Tewkesbury says the lads from the lane whistle my bits back at me when I'm up a tree. I told him I've never sung in tune in my life. You were the one who could hear a kettle and name its key. Still, I found the tune you hummed on the Sunday drive, the one that falls a fourth and then sort of apologises, and I've copied it onto the back of the crate invoices. It wants a bass line, and I think you'd have found it in a minute.

I sent the page to Mrs Okafor at the school, asking if she'd try it on the hall piano. She played it through on Thursday with the windows open, and the whole orchard went quiet except for the blackbirds, who seemed to know the second bar better than the rest of us. She asked who wrote it. I said the wasps, mostly.

Come up in September and bring the good pencil. The ladder's still propped against the Conference trees, and there's a curly clef at the bottom of the page that looks like a question mark somebody dropped in the grass. I can't get its tail right. Love, Jo.