Colour tattoo of a yellow and orange sunflower with green leaves and a red ladybird, in a traditional style on the thigh.

Sunflower and ladybird on a thigh

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A large sunflower with orange and yellow petals and a dark brown centre sits at the top of a green stem with two leaves. A small red ladybird rests on the left leaf. Black outlines and soft shading give the petals depth, and the bold colours stand out against the pale skin.

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Mr Oakley's allotment ran down to the railway cutting, and every July the sunflowers on plot nine stood taller than the shed. Nobody had planted that one on purpose. A jay must have dropped a seed in the autumn, and it came up between the leeks with the stubbornness of something that had decided where it was going. Bessie Hale, who kept the next plot and disapproved of most things, said it would be dead by August. It was not.

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The ladybird arrived in the third week of June and took the left-hand leaf as her own. She spent whole afternoons walking the veins, checking each greenfly the way a bailiff checks a ledger, and by evening the leaf was clean. Bessie noticed and grudgingly admitted the ladybird was worth more than the tin of powder she kept under the sink. Mr Oakley said nothing. He only pinched out the side shoots and let the great head bend toward the light.

The storm came the night before the show. By morning the stem lay across the path like a fallen signpost, its bloom split and sagging in the mud. Bessie stood at the gate with her hands on her hips and said that was that. But the ladybird was still on the leaf, unbothered, and when Mr Oakley propped the stalk against a broom handle and tied it with garden twine, the flower lifted its face by degrees toward the east, where the sun was coming up over the cutting.

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