Officially up and running!
The Summer Reading Challenge in Derbyshire was officially launched on
Friday by author Josh Lacey. Josh spoke in Chesterfield and Ilkeston libraries
and now we're up and running, or
as this year's emblem is a dragon, maybe we are "up and flying" or
even just "on fire"!
Josh is the author of a series of books about The Dragonsitter (Dragonsitter books)
which set us off wondering about Derbyshire Dragons
We seem to be lacking these - so we might have to discover some over the
summer, although we do have Wormhill near Buxton. While there is probably a very
sensible explanation of the Worm bit, just perhaps there was a worm (Anglo-saxon
dragons were often worms or wyrms) that wrapped itself around
the knoll there
Just over the border in Cheshire, a dragon was terrifying the good
people of Moston near Middlewich until a certain Thomas Venables "afterwards
with other weapons manfullie slew him". That dragon (he is
carved into a screen in the Venables chapel in Middlewich church) lived in Bache
Pool, like a lot of dragons in old British stories: maybe our dragons, sea
serpents and lake monsters are all jumbled up? You can read more about this story here: Ludchurchblog
Can anyone recommend a good (potential) dragon pool in Derbyshire - but make
sure it isn't one of the mermaid ones first?
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