My Day Out... A Change of Plan, and a Dragon! Part II...

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Ok... so now you know all about the St. Leonards, West Sussex Dragon Legend, and we are some way through the forest. We had climbed to the highest part of the forest, and didn't wish to turn around and head straight back down, so we took a right turn and looped round, ending up on the bridleway. As we emerged from the wooded area, a huge dragonfly came for us... it was really big and a dark golden colour, the like of which I've never seen before. Ok, yellow and black I've seen and often have the turquoise ones in my garden, but these were even bigger and almost a copper colour... or could it be they weren't dragonflies, but faeries? Hmmmm... I'll leave that one to your imagination. Anyway, we turned left and climbed to the top of the bridlepath hill, onto the ridge, where there must have been five or six signposts. lol. So, having picked up what I thought I would make an excellent new staff, I plodded around these signposts with my staff in hand, lol, like Gandolph! From the signs, I decided we needed to head back down the bridlepath, much to my Son's disgust. It was over a mile down there, so I reckon we walked about 3-4 miles in total. My granddaughter had collected four sturdy sticks to take home and make a tent. lol. With one of these, she kept running ahead, and making giant dragon footprints. The girls also had fun running ahead in the forest and hiding behind trees and amongst the foliage, thinking we couldn't see their rears sticking out behind the tree trunks. ha ha ha. They too marvelled at the dragonflies, or faeries, whatever they were. They were so big, and so abundant that they were even shown on the nature board at the entrance to the forest. We went to KFC and I had a KFC Salad, as did Sarah, and the others had fries, coleslaw and beans with theirs. Then, once home, Lauren wanted to make this tent. She has a perfectly good tent, you will understand, but she wanted to make one. She was having a bit of trouble, so who got involved.... yup, yours truly. Our guy ropes weren't to strong or well anchored and on putting a sheet over it, the whole thing collapsed, so, I got impatient, and turned it into a tepee, but she like that, because it was different. :) When the sun had gone from the back garden, we went indoors and I showed her what you'd all said in answer to a couple of discussions I'd started about her. She was really pleased... and Whyaskq? She sat watching your avatar for ages...... she thought it was great!!! lol. So, there you have it. St. Leonards Forest stretches from Kent, across Sussex and into Hampshire and there are some very interesting places to visit so I'm sure I will be going back to different parts, and will keep you all up to date. I hope you all had as great a Saturday as I did!:)