Jolly Roger

One of my earliest codified rules was that, while I would be completely transparent about pirate season and all that it entails, never once would my wife lay eyes upon the Jolly Roger.

In another image, a sign with “Jolly Roger” on it is in the foreground by a dock; just behind it, a British flag flies.

“The Jolly Roger... he really didn’t want me to put a skull on that, that was the limit, he didn’t want to see that.”

A Jolly Roger pirate flag from a World War Two Royal Navy submarine will go under the hammer later.

Landing the Jolly Roger ends up being trickier than I’d imagined.