Beware of the bench.

I think if you heed the advice in the text below you might want to think twice about sitting on this bench.....them dragons is dangerous beasts ya know🐉🐲🔥😁

 

Just a silly for today. Horsham is riddled with dragons and has two tales of its very own. I have shamelessly copied and pasted the text from a previous post about the story of St Leonard and his encounter with a dragon [spoiler alert it doesn't end well for the poor creature] and put up a link to my other post which covers the dragon pamphlet for anyone who might be interested https://gnatbottomedtowers.blogspot.com/2014/08/happy-400th-birthday.html. The new bench appeared in our local park a couple of weeks ago. Have a fab weekend! Arilx

'The wood gets it name from the 6th century French Saint Leonard who happened to be hanging around this part of the Wealden forest for reasons unknown [it's sounding more plausible by the moment]. To pass the time he slew the resident dragon which was giving the villagers a bit of trouble and in the process accidentally cut himself. Saint's blood is potent stuff and where it fell supposedly lily of the valley now grows. As a reward Leonard got to banish all the snakes and silence all the nightingales so that his prayers wouldn't be disturbed by their singing.'