Traditional style tattoo of a bee with a red heart on its abdomen, grey wings and a pink flower with green leaves below, on a limb.

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Traditional bee with heart and pink flower

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A bee sits centrally with grey shaded wings, black outlined yellow and black striped abdomen and a red-to-black shaded heart. Below it sits a pink five-petalled flower with green leaves and small red berry sprigs. Bold black outlines and flat colour fills dominate, set against blue fabric in the background.

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The swarm had settled on the washing line again, and Nell Harrow stood in her slippers with a damp sheet over one arm, counting bees the way other women counted pennies. Walter had kept hives on this hill for forty years. He used to say a honeybee that came back to the same flower each morning was not feeding, it was courting, and Nell had laughed at him for it until the summer he stopped being able to lift the supers.

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The one she watched was easy to pick out. It had a little red heart on its chest, bright as a cherry, and it ignored the lavender entirely. Every morning it worked the pink mallow by the privy wall, then flew back to the hive with its legs yellow with dust, then came out again and went straight back to the mallow, as though it had been given an errand nobody had explained to it.

On the sill of the back bedroom sat Walter's tobacco tin, still full of the pressed flowers he had gathered for her in the spring of 1962. Nell lifted the lid. Among the dried petals lay a single mallow head, pink and papery, the same colour as the one by the wall.

She went out in her slippers, bent over the flower, and let the bee walk onto her finger. She carried it inside, past the hives and the empty chair, and set it on the sill beside the tin. Then she left the window open.

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