Black and grey script tattoos reading Carry On across two ankles, shown above black shoes on a road.

Carry On script tattoos across both ankles

Lettering · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

Two script words sit one on each ankle and read together as Carry On. The lettering uses smooth, looping strokes with fine flourishes and light shading in black and grey ink. Dark rolled trousers and black shoes frame the pale skin against a blurred road and horizon.

Lettering Ankle Script Word

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Pass me that twine, and mind the knot, you'll not get a second go at it with the tide on the turn. Aye, the Mairi Dorn went out that winter with eleven men and came back with nine, and the two that didn't were my cousin's lads, so don't be looking at me like I'm making it up.

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The skipper, Hugh Bannerman, was a man who said two words when a thing got hard. Carry. On. He said them at the winch, at the bilge pump, at the hauling of a fouled trawl at three in the morning. Carry, and the men would lift. On, and they'd stop looking at the sea.

The storm came in off the Rathlin side with a wall of grey behind it, and the engine coughed and quit. Hugh went below with a torch clamped in his teeth and a spanner in his fist, and for an hour the only sound in the wheelhouse was the pump and his voice coming up through the hatch, counting. Carry. On. When the light came up grey and thin, the boat was still afloat, bent like a bow but afloat, and every man aboard had his hands on something.

Hugh had the words painted on the wheelhouse door after that, in black letters with a curl to the tails, and he touched them going in and out like a man touching wood for luck. I asked him once why not something grander. He said grand things sink, and the boat was called Mairi Dorn, and she'd carried us home. So take that net and go on. The Mairi's still in the harbour, and I'll be damned if I let the water have the last word.