This isn’t a tattoo, it is a lovely elegant henna design my friend Kohinoor did on my friend… but it led us into talking about tattoos. I am sure I have mentioned before that I really actually don’t like them very much, but I know for lots of people not only are they attractive and even beautiful, but they also have particular significance and meaning. Often people have the names of their children, or some symbolic representation of them. Sometimes a tattoo commemorates or honours loved ones. Sometimes they have some other very personal and private significance.
If I were thinking of a design to represent the people I love, then I would have a bee for my husband as that is my nick-name for him, a ladybird for my daughter, and either a mathematical or scientific symbol for my son, or a lion – a play on Rory (roar-y!) As for a slogan…or whatever you call the words people have as tattoos, I would have ‘o what a thrill!’ on one arm/writs and ‘all along this road’ on the other’… but I won’t ever have a tattoo!
Lois Elsden 
I detest tattoos, find them actually totally off-putting. Since fate tattooed a “surplus to requirement” sign on my forehead when I was born, I can’t see the point of paying somebody to lable me even more of a loser. As a writer, I guess I’d choose “still hopeful after all these failures” tattoo if a pulisher insisted on me getting an “imprint”.
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As people we are always changing, and the sort of people we are at eighteen is different from two years later – let alone twenty years later! I dread to think what I would have thought was a great tattoo when I was younger… it really would look ridiculous now! My skin is going to remain untattooed!
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