Two tattooed legs raised against a pale wall, showing black and grey script, a lace-style floral piece and colour roses in a botanical style on the calves.

Tattooed legs with script, roses and lace

Botanical · Calf · Mixed · Photo

Two legs are raised against a pale wall, with the lower legs and feet covered in tattoos. The shins carry blocks of fine black script, a grey lace-like floral design and a black and grey ornamental piece, while the right calf has pink roses and a peony in colour with teal and green shading. The shot is framed close and straight on, with the bath edge visible at the bottom of the frame.

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The peony had already been sold twice, once to a vicar in Settle who brought it back with yellow leaves, once to a man who paid cash and never returned for the collection. So when Margaret Holroyd carried the pot down the lane on Thursday she wrapped its roots in an old seed catalogue and told herself the plant wanted a third chance more than she did.

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The nursery ledger lay open on the counter where she had left it. Sixty years of names ran down its columns in different hands, each keeper's copperplate leaning a little further than the last. Ada Pickles, rose cuttings, 1952. Lace cap for the Feast, white, 1961. Her own handwriting only started in 1989, and she was tempted to skip a line when she reached the entry for Arthur's wedding, a pale pink peony bought in a rush and never planted because he said it was too good for the yard.

The girl at the gate of the rectory garden was perhaps nineteen, with a jar of pins in one fist and a sketch of a rose folded in the other. She asked whether the peony would take in shade. Margaret said it would take almost anything if you left it alone, then felt foolish, because she had never once left anything alone in her life.

Then she went back inside and wrote the new line in the ledger: Peony, pink, third chance, collected by the girl from the rectory, paid in full. Underneath it, in smaller letters, she added the date.

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