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Treble clef and rose on an ankle

Fine line · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A close-up of a bare ankle and foot in beige platform heels with a dotted strap, standing on a purple carpet. A small black fine-line tattoo of a treble clef entwined with a rose sits on the ankle, with light stippled shading. The tattoo is in black and grey against tanned skin and the purple and blue floor.

Fine line Ankle Treble clef Rose Music

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit down, love, the chair by the stove is the only honest one in the room. You want the story of the rose on the vicarage wall, and it starts with a row about a hymn, which is how most things in Pelham Cross started in the winter of 1954.

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Mrs Ada Hensley played the organ at St Brendan's for thirty-one years and had never once missed a note she meant to play. Then the new curate brought in an anthem by a man in Leeds, and its top line climbed the stave like a cat up a curtain. Nobody could reach it. The choir went flat, the bellows boy fell asleep, and Ada walked home with her pencil behind her ear and her temper worse than the weather.

The vicarage wall faced her front gate, and on it grew a climbing rose her husband had planted before the war. It had gone wild, and its thorns snagged her cardigan every time she passed. That Thursday she took the secateurs to it and cut it back to the old wood. Among the cuttings in the bucket was a sheet of the anthem she had torn in her rage. The paper had caught on the thorns, and when she bent to fetch it she saw the buds had lodged exactly where the difficult notes sat. She had drawn the clef herself as a girl, all loops and curls, and against the wet bricks it looked like a stem wound round a single bloom.

She sang the top line that Sunday, slowly, one petal at a time. The curate wept into his hymnal and the bellows boy woke with a start. By spring the rose had come back thicker than before, and nobody in Pelham Cross has called that hymn impossible since.