Back of a woman's neck showing a small black outline animal tattoo at the nape, with an orange sun and a green snowflake further down the upper back.

Sun, snowflake and animal outline on upper back

Neck · Mixed · Photo

A woman with her hair in a loose bun is seen from behind, showing three tattoos. A small black outline of an animal sits at the nape of the neck, above an orange sun with a yellow centre and a green snowflake shape lower on the upper back. The background is softly blurred, which keeps the focus on the tattoos against the skin.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Ada,

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The thaw came on Tuesday, and I nearly missed it. For nineteen days the sun had shown itself only as a grey smear behind the ridge, and I had stopped looking up. Then Mrs Pirie came up the track on foot, shouting that the postman's sledge had got through. There was a parcel from your mother with two jars of marmalade and a wool hat that I'm told you knitted yourself, though it has eleven dropped stitches and a lean to the left.

The hut is quiet now that the guests have gone down. Only Pirie's dog and the stove keep me company. Last night a fox came to the step and sat in the snow, watching the lamp in the window the way you used to watch the kettle. I left the door open a crack, and it went off with something in its mouth, leaving tracks across the yard like a line of loose stitches. I thought of the tin of pins on your mother's table and the star you cross-stitched at Christmas, the one with the wonky points you swore were on purpose.

I've been keeping Harold's old logbook again. Every morning he drew the weather as a little symbol in the margin: a sun for clear, a flake for snow, a curled animal for the fox that came to his door. I found his entry for the first thaw of 1961. It says only, "Sun back. Ice still holding. Keep the lamp lit." I copied it under today's date, then drew the sun a little crooked, the way you'd do it.

I'll leave the book open on the table for when you come up in March. Bring the wonky star. I want to hang it by the window where the fox can see it.

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