Close-up of a small heart tattoo with bold black outline, blue and yellow stripes and flat colour, on the shoulder area of pale skin.

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Blue and yellow heart on skin

Shoulder · Colour · Photo

A small heart shape is filled with bands of blue and yellow, with a thick black outline. The colour is flat, with simple curved highlights and shading within the bands. The heart sits near the centre of the frame against plain, lightly lit skin.

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Sit yourself down by the urn, love, and mind the draught from the back door, because it has never shut properly since the winter of the big storm. You're wanting to know about the heart painted over the bread bin? That was Nell Ashby's doing. She had a tin of yellow left over from the groyne gate and a blue she mixed herself from the dregs of Mr Crabbe's boat paint, and she worked it on the back of a cupboard door with a brush made from a cat's tail, or so the story went, though I never saw the cat.

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Tom Harker went out on the lifeboat the night the Marigold broke her back on the Long Bank. Nell stood at the upstairs window with the lamp and counted the flashes of the lighthouse until the numbers stopped making sense to her. The boat came home at dawn with four souls aboard and not the fifth, and every morning after that she went down before the kettle and painted another band on that heart. Blue for the water he'd gone under, yellow for the sand that never stopped getting into everything. She said the bands got wider each week, and by midsummer the blue had near swallowed the yellow.

Then one wet Tuesday in September, the tide was out so far you could walk to the sandbar, and a figure came up the shingle with his boots full of mud and his hat in his hand. Nell didn't run. She went to the cupboard, looked at the heart for a long while, and then picked up the brush and added one thin yellow line along the bottom edge, where the sand meets the sea.

He asked her what it was for, and she told him it was a map. Some folk think she meant that the sea had given him back to the shore, and some think she meant she had finally decided which of them was going to be the land. I think she just wanted the paint to be finished. Mind the step on your way out, love. It's slippery where the sand comes in.

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