Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading be happy with a small outlined heart on the inner wrist, in a greyscale photo.

Be happy script with heart on wrist

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A fine line script tattoo reads be happy, with a small outlined heart after the final letter. The linework is thin and even, with no shading, and the lettering runs diagonally across the inner wrist. The image is greyscale, with the hand raised at the top of the frame and dark fabric visible on the right.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit yourself down on that upturned crate, and mind the gull, he's been eyeing your chips since you sat. Right. Where was I. Ah, the Carrow boats, the year the herring came in so thick the nets sang.

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Old Tam Easdale had a hand for lettering, which was a strange gift in a man who couldn't read a tide table without his spectacles. He'd sit on the net loft steps with a pen no thicker than a hair and write on anything going: the back of a fish ticket, the lid of a tin, the sole of his own boot. The words looped one into another like wet rope drying on a rail. His wife Morag would watch him and say he was wasting good ink on nonsense.

The winter the Mary Ann went down off the Skerries, Tam wrote three words on a scrap of tarred canvas and gave it to the youngest Hay boy, Davie, who was only fourteen and sick with fear of going out at all. Be happy, it said, with a little heart after it, pricked out so small you had to hold it to the lamp. Davie laughed at it. Then he went out anyway, and came home with eleven crates and the canvas folded in his pocket, soaked through.

Morag kept that scrap for forty years. It's still in a drawer in Carrow, gone soft as cloth, and every new lad who ships out gets asked to read it before he leaves the quay. Nobody reads it aloud, mind. You just look at the heart and know the man who drew it meant every stroke.

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