Black fine line tattoo of an infinity symbol with an arrow passing through it, placed on the back of the neck.

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Infinity symbol with arrow on the nape

Fine line · Neck · Black and grey · Photo

A black ink tattoo of an infinity symbol with a small arrow running diagonally through its centre, the arrowhead pointing up and the fletching at the lower end. The lines are thin and even, with the solid black outline showing little shading. The photograph is black and white and centred on the nape of the neck, with hair falling across the top of the frame.

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Mam, you'll think I've lost my wits, but the Marigold has gone round the Dogger twice this week without a decent catch, and Skipper Hollis swears it's the bearing and not the fish. He's had the compass man out three times. I told him a compass can't point at where the herring have gone.

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We have been chasing the same loop of water since Tuesday. The plotter draws it as a ring on the chart, a figure of eight lying on its side, and every time we come round the bottom of it the gulls are waiting for us, pleased with themselves. Then on Thursday a thin shadow came up off the sounder, shaped like a spear, sloping through the middle of the ring. Hollis put her about on it, and we hauled a net so full the warp sang.

Don't tell Nan I said so, but I think the sea keeps its own accounts. You go round and round until you've paid what's owed, then something points you out of it. The lad who had my bunk before me scratched an arrow into the wheelhouse ledge with a nail. Nobody knows where he went. I'd like to think he found the way out of the loop and the rest of us just haven't looked up yet.

I'm sending this with the post boat out of Grimsby so it reaches you before the cold sets in. Keep the lamp lit in the back window. I'll be home for your birthday, even if I have to row the last mile. Say hello to Dad's stone when you pass it, and tell the chandler's lad I still owe him sixpence.

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