Aidan 11, Sunday 5th June

Today we went to Hungerford to walk along the canal, we fed a big group of ducks and two swans. Holly said it is like a school because the ducks are the students and one of the swans was the teacher. The other swan is the principal. A couple of the ducks had ducklings.  We ate our sandwiches on the grass in the sun.

After lunch, we also went to see the oldest of the white horses and a hill fort. There was a hill where they say St. George killed a dragon.  The story of St George is that once upon a time there was a village near to where a dragon lived in a cave.  The villagers gave the dragon all their sheep and other animals so he would stop attacking them. When they ran out of food they had to give some of the girls from the village to the dragon until there was only the princess left. The King said that the princess had to go and wait for the dragon to come out of its cave but then luckily St George appeared with a spear and stabbed the dragon in the ribs where there were no scales. Then the blood of the dragon went all over the ground and now the grass doesn't grow in that spot on dragon hill.

We had to walk down the hill past the horse to the hill where he killed the dragon. It was steep going down but steeper going back up again. We took Rufus with us again but he was not allowed off the lead because there were sheep in the fields around the horse.