Fine line black outline tattoo of an adhesive plaster with dot detail on the outer thigh.

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Plaster bandage tattoo on the thigh

Fine line · Thigh · Black and grey · Photo

A small outline tattoo of an adhesive plaster sits on the outer thigh, drawn in thin black linework with dot detailing on the end pads and a central dressing section. The photograph is taken at close range of a bare leg, with grey smudges on the skin and a dark fabric edge at the lower right. The ink is black only, with a soft pinkish tone around the tattoo.

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Sit down, love, and mind the draught from the balcony door, it's been trying to get in since nineteen seventy-one. Now, the lift in Ashworth House stopped the week the Kellys moved in, and it stayed stopped for eleven days, which is how Maureen Pask came to be carrying a bag of coal up nine flights with a plaster on her knee she'd got from the corner of the bin store.

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Eleven days is nothing, mind, for a building that had been promised a new lift since before your mother was born. The council sent a man in a van who looked at the doors, sighed, and went away again. So the whole block learned to climb, and to swear in fourteen languages on the stairs, and to leave notes on each other's doors about who had left a bike in the stairwell.

Maureen's plaster was the kind with the little pads, the sort you buy in a tin of thirty from the chemist on Crane Road. She'd put it on herself, badly, and by the seventh floor one end had lifted. She didn't mind. Every landing she passed, somebody handed her something: a tin of soup, a shopping bag, a hairpin for her sticking lock. Old Mr Adeyemi on six pressed it flat with his own thumb and told her the lift was a matter for God and the council, in that order.

On the twelfth day the lift hummed and the doors slid open on nothing but a smell of cold metal. Maureen stepped in, pressed nine, and laughed the whole way up, because the plaster was the only thing in Ashworth House that had ever held.

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