Black script lettering reading One day at a time, tattooed along the side of a person's ribs.

One day at a time script on the ribs

Lettering · Ribs · Black and grey · Photo

A close photograph of a black ink tattoo in flowing cursive script that reads One day at a time, set horizontally across the side of the ribs. The letterforms have smooth, even lines with thicker strokes on the capitals and looped descenders on the y. The background shows a white top at the upper edge, a pink waistband and grey tarmac, with the skin lit by bright daylight.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The snow had sealed the lane to Low Scar by the second week of January, and Mrs Ager stopped counting the bales and started counting the days instead. She scratched each one into the lintel above the byre door with the point of a horseshoe nail, a short upright line for every morning the ewes had come through.

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Her son Tom wanted to ride down to Kendal for the vet, because the young ram had a cough that rattled like a loose gate. Each morning she gave him the same answer. The beck was iced over, the mare was lame in the near fore, and the sky above the fell had a yellow edge that meant more weather was coming. Wait, she told him. We take it one day at a time, the way you bring a ewe through a bad night, with a bit of warmth and a bit of patience and no more than the hour in front of you.

On the twelfth day the thaw came in a single night. By morning the beck ran brown and loud under the bridge and the lane showed black again. Tom went down to Kendal and came back by dusk with the vet, the medicine, and a paper twist of tea that his mother had asked for and never once in her life bothered to make.

That evening she took the nail and drew a line through the last mark. Then she stood in the cold doorway and looked up at the rest of the lintel, where the marks ran back past Christmas to the autumn. There were a great many of them, and every one had been enough.