Black and grey traditional style tattoo of a globe with a compass rose, a sailing ship, clouds, leaves and a flower, photographed on skin.

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Globe, ship and compass tattoo

Traditional · Black and grey · Photo

The design shows a globe on a stand with continent outlines, a compass rose across the lower left, and a sailing ship with clouds above it. Leaves and a flower with petal linework sit to the right and lower right of the globe. The work uses bold outlines with grey shading on the globe and leaves, and it is entirely black and grey.

Traditional Globe Compass rose Sailing ship Cloud Leaves Flower Map Continent

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The lift has been out since Tuesday, so I've been taking the stairs with the shopping and the post and, on Wednesday, Dad's old globe, which I could not bear to leave in the bin room with the prams. I got it up to the flat with my shoulder against the wall and my heart going like a dropped tin. It's back on the windowsill now, facing the car park, where you used to spin it with your thumb until Mum told you to stop before you wore the Atlantic off.

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The ship on the paper you sent is the Brightwater, out of Immingham, and the man from the Gazette rang to ask if the family wanted a photograph for the crew page. I said no. I said I'd rather have you. He said the sea was a good job for a lad who couldn't sit still, and I said that was the trouble, you never could, and then I put the phone down on him, which Mrs Okafor from 9B says I should not do to reporters.

Last night I unscrewed the brass compass from the stand and found a scrap of paper folded inside the base, in your handwriting: Back by the spring, keep the north side warm. So I have turned the globe until the north faces the lamp. I've stuck a pin in the blue somewhere off the coast of Ecuador, which is probably wrong, because the Brightwater is nowhere near there by now. I'll move the pin every Sunday anyway, so that when you finally climb all fourteen flights, you'll know exactly how far you have to come.