Small black fine line outline tattoo of a smiling elephant with a heart above its trunk, on the ankle.

Outline elephant with heart on ankle

Fine line · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A small outline tattoo of a cartoon elephant facing right, with its trunk raised and a small open heart above it. The linework is thin, even and solid black, with no shading or fill inside the shapes. The image is in black ink on pale skin, and the close framing shows the design filling most of the frame.

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Mind the drop by the gate, the ground there is soft from the windfalls, and don't you go stepping on the bees. Now. Last August, when the Bramley trees were sagging and the wasps were drunk on the fallen plums, old Wilf Harbottle came up the lane with a grey elephant in a cardboard box. Not a real one, mind. A toy, the size of a loaf, with a chewed ear and one foot missing its stitching. He'd won it at the summer fair in Ledbury and couldn't think what to do with it.

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We put it on the wall of the packing shed, between the ladders and the calendar from the cider press. It sat there a week looking at us with its trunk up, the way a dog does when it wants the last biscuit. Then Mavis Oddie's grandson came with his chalk and drew a heart on the whitewash above its head, because he said an elephant ought to be blowing kisses at something. Wilf thought that was daft. Wilf went out to the far rows with his secateurs and came back an hour later saying the heart was the only thing in the shed that didn't need pruning.

So here's the thing I tell the pickers. Whatever you carry up that lane, it will want somewhere to point its nose. The elephant is still on the shed wall, if you care to look, though the chalk's long gone. Mind the step.

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