Neo-traditional style colour tattoo of a winged hourglass with vines and flowers on the upper arm and shoulder, shown in three views.

Enlarged with AI from a smaller original

Hourglass with wings on an upper arm

Neo-trad · Upper arm · Colour · Photo

A winged hourglass sits at the centre of the design, with green vines and pink flowers wrapping around the arm. The shading is smooth and painterly, with soft gradients in pink, orange and teal and bold dark outlines. The three-panel collage shows the piece from the front and both sides against a patterned black and white background.

Neo-trad Upper arm Shoulder Hourglass Wing Vine Flower Sand

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Pru, I hope the last train didn't leave you stranded at Crewe again. The school hall smelled exactly as it did in 1994, floor polish and boiled cabbage, and someone had pinned the old house photographs to the board by the fire door, all of us squinting into the sun on sports day.

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Do you remember Ashby's brass timer on the chemistry bench? He flipped it whenever we talked over him, and the sand would hiss down through the neck while we pretended to be busy with the Bunsen burners. Danny Rowe brought one to the reunion, a cheap plastic copy from a garden centre he now manages, and he set it on our table without a word. Nobody laughed. We just watched it run.

At the end of the night, Mr Fenwick, the caretaker who somehow still works there, came round with his keys jangling and asked whether we were going to leave before he locked up. Pru, I looked at that little glass and realised none of us had moved for an hour. He turned the timer over for us, very solemnly, and said we could stay until the sand ran out. So we did. Danny told the story about the frog in the physics cupboard again, and Gwen cried laughing into her cardigan.

Come next year. Bring whatever you still have from those days, and I'll bring the wine. We can argue about who was really top of the class. Love, Marian.