Traditional style colour tattoo of a teal stand mixer with a steel bowl, surrounded by pink, orange and purple flowers and green leaves, on the upper leg.

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Teal stand mixer with flowers on a thigh

Traditional · Thigh · Colour · Photo

The tattoo shows a teal stand mixer with a shaded steel mixing bowl, set among stylised flowers in pink, orange and purple with green leaves. Bold black outlines define the shapes, with flat fills and simple highlights on the appliance. The design fills the frame against skin, with the mixer centred and the flowers framing its base.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

'Hold the bowl steady, Nell, or we'll be scraping sponge off the skirting again.' Mrs Pascoe's voice cuts over the whirr of the mixer, which has been shuddering across the scrubbed table since before the kettle boiled. Twelve eggs, the order says now, not six, because the man in number four has told the whole top floor that our Victoria sponge is better than anything in Llandudno. I believe him. I have been eating the crusts.

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The mixer came from a catalogue in 1958, paid for in shillings a week, and it has been teal ever since, the colour of the bay on a good morning. Its steel bowl takes the light from the window and throws it across the ceiling, so the kitchen wobbles like the bottom of a pond. Mrs Pascoe won't let anyone else switch it on. Outside the back door the sweet peas and nasturtiums climb the wall in pinks and oranges, and she cuts them for the breakfast tables every Saturday, saying a house has to look like it means to stay.

The letter arrived on Thursday with a Bristol postmark. Mrs Pascoe read it standing at the sink, folded it into her apron pocket, and said nothing until the bowl was full. 'Mr Hale's coming back,' she said, and cranked the mixer to its highest speed, so the cream flew against the glass. I didn't ask who Mr Hale was. The room at the top of the stairs had been aired all week, and the good sheets were already out on the line.

That night the whirring stopped, and I found her at the table with her hands flat either side of the cold steel bowl, not moving. I took the beaters out, wiped them, and set the mixer back under its tea towel. In the morning there was a fresh jug of sweet peas on the sill and an extra cup laid at the end of the table, and the whole kitchen smelt of butter and waiting.