Traditional style colour tattoo on a forearm showing two toucans perched above a pineapple, with a red flower and watermelon slice below.

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Toucans, pineapple and watermelon on a forearm

Traditional · Forearm · Colour · Photo

The tattoo shows two toucans with large orange and yellow beaks perched on a branch above a pineapple, with a red flower and a green-rimmed watermelon slice at the base. Bold black outlines define the forms, with solid fills and soft gradient shading in red, orange, yellow and green. The design runs vertically down the forearm, with leaves framing the pineapple and the bottom edge cropped by the frame.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The coach from Kendal was the last to get over the pass before the snow shut it, and it left us a crate nobody had ordered. Stencilled on the side were two toucans with painted orange beaks, and beneath them, in a hand that had given up on capitals, the words FOR THE ROOM WITH THE CLOCK. We had no room with a clock. We had a room with a cuckoo that had been silent since my grandfather's day, and I supposed that counted.

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Mr Tolley, snowed in since Tuesday with a cough and a grievance, said it was a mistake and should go back down with the thaw. Mrs Ibbotson said crates don't make mistakes, they only arrive. Between them they got the lid off with the bread knife. Inside, wrapped in pages of a newspaper from a town none of us had heard of, sat a pineapple the size of a child's head and a watermelon the colour of the lamp shade in the taproom.

We ate in our coats because the fire was losing its argument with the draughts. I cut the pineapple on the scrubbed table and the juice ran into the grain, sweet enough to make Mr Tolley stop coughing long enough to swear. He said his late wife had once promised him a holiday somewhere warm, and that the snow had always been her fault. Nobody believed him, and nobody minded.

Just before midnight, with the wind gone quiet and the window glowing blue from the drifts, the cuckoo clock in the empty room above us struck once. Mrs Ibbotson looked at the ceiling. Mr Tolley looked at the watermelon rind on the plate, green and pale and ridiculous. Neither of them said that the clock had never kept time, and I did not tell them the crate had been addressed to a room with its door locked since the summer.