Holly 11, Sunday 5th June

We went to see the Uffington White horse that some people say is a dragon because St George killed a dragon that lived there.

The story goes like this. Once there was a village that lived near a dragon's cave that a huge dragon lived in that kept killing the people.  To stop the dragon, the people gave it all their gold and their animals until; all the gold and animals were gone. So the King said that they must have a draw so every day they would draw a name and that that person would get eaten by the dragon.  Until one day the Princess's name was called out so the King said she must go to the pond and wait for the dragon. Before she left the village the people put on her wedding dress and a crown of flowers on her head because she must get married to the dragon and her wedding present would be death. As she was going out of the village a brave knight called St George was on his horse and he stopped by an old man and the man told him all about the village that was in threat.  When St George heard that the princess was going to be eaten by a giant dragon he set off on his horse to the dragon's cave.  The princess was already there waiting for the dragon. St George  saw the dragon emerge from the cave. St George stabbed him with his spear but the dragon was too scaley so the spear broke.   St George fell off his horse and the dragon jumped onto him but he had his sword and he stabbed it in the ribs so it died.

We also went to a canal and we saw tons of ducks under a bridge and 2 swans and I thought it was like a school.

We went up the canal on a path and 2 ducks came up to me and I put some duck food on my shoe and the female duck was eating off my shoe.  Aidan got some pictures. I really wanted to touch them but I didn't.  Then we got sandwiches from the supermarket and went back to the canal and I fed some ducklings.The ducklings hopped out of the water and so did their parents.