Realism colour portrait tattoo of an elderly man with white wild hair and a moustache, wrapped around the upper arm.

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Elderly man portrait tattoo on upper arm

Realism · Upper arm · Colour · Photo

A detailed portrait of an elderly man with wild white hair, a full white moustache and deep facial wrinkles, shown in a head-and-shoulders view with a dark jacket collar. The shading is smooth and blended, with careful highlights on the skin, eyes and hair, and teal and blue tones in the background. The portrait fills the frame, and the curve of the arm is visible around it.

Realism Upper arm Portrait Moustache Face Jacket

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The river came up in November 1953 and took the footbridge at Llanwen, so the only way across was Nell Garrow's rowing boat, which she charged a penny for and sometimes refused to take at all. The old man with the white moustache had been waiting on the far bank since dawn, a canvas satchel strapped across his jacket and a clock face wrapped in newspaper under one arm.

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"Your fare," Nell said. "And what's in the paper?"

"A broken hour," he said. "I have been asked to mend it before the chapel bells ring twelve." She looked at the water, grey-green and thick as paint, and at the rope she had tied to the bank. "Sit in the middle and don't rock," she said. "The boat has opinions."

Halfway over, the current caught them and the boat swung in a slow circle. The old man did not grip the sides. He took a small glass from his pocket and held the clock face up to the light, squinting as though the river were a lesson he was trying to read. "Every hour I have ever mended," he said, "someone was waiting for it to be right." Nell pulled the oars harder and did not answer him.

On the near bank the bells had not yet rung. He paid her two pennies and handed her the wrapped clock. "Keep it until the water drops," he said. That night she unwrapped it on the kitchen table and found the hands stopped at a quarter to twelve. She set it on the windowsill, wound it every morning, and by spring the river had gone back between its banks, and the ferry was rowed by a boy who never asked for a fare.