Close-up of a small black fine line tattoo of two short diagonal strokes on the side of a finger, with the hand resting on a wooden table.

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Two small strokes on a finger

Fine line · Hand · Black and grey · Photo

A close-up photograph of a hand resting on a wooden surface, with a small tattoo of two short, slightly diagonal strokes on the side of one finger. The linework is thin and dark, in solid black ink with no shading. The warm wood tones fill the background, and the tattoo sits near the centre of the frame.

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Mrs Abigail Pyke kept the tally for Lock Nineteen the way her father had, with a stub of carpenter's pencil and a notched brass rule nailed to the gate post. Every morning she checked the water against the old mark and, if it had dropped, she drew two short diagonal strokes on the lintel beside the date. Two meant the bottom gates were leaking again. Three meant somebody had to ring the office in Stoke. In forty years she had never needed a third stroke, and she had come to think of the pair as a kind of conversation she was having with the canal.

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Then, one wet March, the boy from the hire boats came running up the towpath with a boat hook over his shoulder, shouting that a narrowboat was sitting on the sill with its stern in the reeds. Abigail did not run. She walked, because running made the water look worse than it was, and she carried her rule and her pencil.

The boat was called Patience, painted green and red, and its owner, a stranger with mud to the elbows, asked her if she had ever seen the lock so low. She said she had seen it lower in 1976, which was not quite true, but it settled him. Together they wound the paddles and watched the gauge creep up.

That evening she went back to the gate post and, after a long look at the pencil, drew nothing at all. The water had come back, and some things are better left unwritten.

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