Colour traditional-style tattoo on the side of the torso showing a palm tree, a wave, an orange sun, a red flower and a surfboard-shaped panel with script lettering.

Palm tree, wave and surfboard tattoo on the side

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The tattoo shows a palm tree with green fronds, a curling white wave and an orange sun behind a scroll banner with block lettering. Below sits a pale surfboard-shaped panel with bold script lettering, above an orange and red flower with green leaves and a small smaller word in dark script at the lower right. Bold black outlines frame solid areas of green, red, orange and yellow, with light shading on the wave and board.

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The board arrived in Newquay strapped to the roof of a borrowed van, its nose already cracked, and Nell Harrower spent her first afternoon with a tin of resin and a bread knife, scraping at the gloss while the lads on the harbour wall laughed and asked where she'd stolen it. Her cousin had sent it from Santa Cruz with a note tucked under the leash: Don't let them tell you it's too much board for a girl.

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Every morning that July she paddled out before the car park filled, past the rocks where the old lifeguard hut leaned into the wind. The sun came up orange over the headland and she'd sit astride the wax with her arms dangling, counting sets. The boys from the Fistral crowd hollered from the line-up, telling her to go home to Hollywood, and she lifted a hand without turning round.

On the last Saturday of August the swell came in clean and tall, and Nell caught a wave that ran all the way to the slipway, its white lip curling over her shoulder like a fistful of salt. When she dragged herself up the sand the boys had gone quiet. Her cousin's note was still in her wetsuit pocket, soft now from the sea, and she read it again. Nobody had ever been less sure of what the boys wished than she was, and nobody had ever been surer she'd keep the board.

She took it to the workshop behind the chippy that winter and sanded the cracked nose smooth. Under the old varnish she found a name someone had scratched there years before, and she left it where it was. Come spring she painted her own underneath in red, small enough that only people who looked closely would bother to read it.

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