Hand-drawn black ink lettering design reading NO DAY BUT TODAY with FORGET REGRET between arrows, shown on pale paper.

No day but today lettering design

Lettering · Black and grey · Flash

A pen drawing of a lettering design reading NO DAY BUT TODAY, with the words FORGET and REGRET set between two arrows in the middle. The capitals use a serif style with shaded sides and small decorative notches, while BUT is in a flowing script. The drawing is in black ink on a pinkish-lilac paper background, with no colour ink.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The north wall of Carreg Dinas came down in the third week of February, and by the time the last rubble had stopped rolling into the sheep field, Idris was on his knees with a yard brush, sweeping it back towards the gap as if it might agree to stay put. I told him to leave it. Stones fall where they fall, and the ticket office has never been insured for anything that happens after four o'clock.

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He was seventy-one that spring and had been the castle's mason for forty years, long enough to know every block by its chisel marks. He had cut the words over the gatehouse arch himself in 1979, in capitals he had taught himself from a Victorian copybook, heavy and shadowed, with a BUT that curled like a cursive hand: NO DAY BUT TODAY. Visitors photographed it and asked whether it was the motto of the family who built the keep. Idris always said it was a note to himself, and that he only needed it written down because he forgot it every time the post came from his sister in Cardiff.

On the Thursday he found a block lying face-up in the scree, and he sat on a bollard with it in his lap and did not get up for an hour. Two arrows were cut into its face, one pointing towards the road and one back into the hill, with two words between them in plain capitals, FORGET and REGRET. Nobody could say who had carved it or when. Idris turned it over twice, then set it on the stretch of wall he had started rebuilt and said nothing about it at all.

The next morning he took the early train to Cardiff, and the block stayed where he had put it, facing the road, so that anyone climbing the hill had to read it before they reached the gate.