Black ink treble clef entwined with an anchor-like base and three floating music notes, tattooed on the arm.

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Treble clef and music notes on arm

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A black ink treble clef has a long stem that curves into an anchor-like base, with a swirling scroll at the top. Three music notes with stems and flags sit to the right of the clef, and the bold, solid linework is set against pale skin and a light fabric background. The image is in black ink only, with the tattoo filling the left and centre of the frame.

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Dear Tom,

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The harmonium has finally gone quiet. Mrs Pryce's boy carried it out of the chapel on Tuesday with its bellows split and a hymn sheet still folded inside the lid, and I stood in the lane holding the gate while he argued with the hinge. The clef on the front panel has worn to a shadow, but I could still make out where the old painter let the tail drift into a hook at the bottom, like the anchor you swore you'd scratched into the dinghy when you were nine.

Father's choir sang "Eternal Father" without it on Sunday. Nobody wanted to start, so Hannah Lowe took the pitch from a tuning fork and we came in ragged, three notes behind and a half-tone flat. I thought of you on the Ardent somewhere past the Azores, singing it into the wind so the watch could keep time. Mother says the gulls over the harbour wall have been dropping their own little crotchets on the slipway all week, which I suspect is her way of saying she misses you.

I have dug the bean rows along the south wall, where the sun lasts longest. Yesterday I found a rusted tuning key in the soil, and I've set it on the windowsill beside the photograph of you holding the dinghy's painter. When the first shoots come up I'll tie them to the twine the way you showed me, one knot for every note, so you can count them when you're home.

Your sister, Jenny

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