Back view of a person in mint green dotted shorts, showing a small black lettering tattoo that reads Hope on the outer thigh.

Small word tattoo reading Hope on a thigh

Lettering · Thigh · Black and grey · Photo

A close view from behind shows a person in mint green shorts with a white dot print and a zipped pocket at the waistband. A small tattoo of the word Hope sits on the outer thigh, set in a simple black lettering style with a thin, even line. The ink is black and the composition is centred on the shorts and the tattoo, with the rest of the body cropped out of frame.

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Late August in the Vell orchard, and Nan Pryce pressed her thumb against the last row of Victorias and counted the drops in the grass. Eleven since Tuesday. The wasps had found the windfalls before the pickers did, and the mist off the Wye had not lifted before eight all week.

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Her grandson Tomas came down the lane with a roll of tape and a biro, because the new tree labels had arrived the wrong size from the merchant in Hereford. He stuck one to the trunk of the old Bramley and wrote on it in his square capitals. She read it upside down: HOPE. It was the name she had given that tree the spring her husband died. He had written it plain and small, the way she had asked, not as a motto.

"It won't fruit till next year," he said. "Doesn't matter," she said. "It's a label, not a crop." He laughed and she nearly did too, but the ladder was leaning against the wrong tree and she needed him to shift it before the afternoon rain came over the hop fields.

They worked until the light went orange along the top wire. At the gate she gave him the last windfall, still warm from the sun, and said it would keep. He bit it, pulled a face and said it was sharp. She told him that was the point of a Bramley, then went in to put the kettle on before the wasps came back.

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