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Welsh wit on display outside a terraced home in Caerleon.

Makes a change from:

GWYLIWCH RHAG Y CI!
(cave canem!)

CAEWCH Y GIT!
(shut the gate!)

GWYLIWCH RHAG Y DALEK!
(Doctor Who fans can figure out that one)

Reminds me of the time my little brother noted there were many houses in the West Country named:

BED & BREAKFAST

The tables are turned, and you can read how those Welsh signs became infamous here.

My husband captured that wicked wifey warning on camera chip. Within the hour, he also took this photo of a sculpture by Cornish artist Neil Gow in the Caerleon Ffwrwm at one of Caerleon’s Roman gates.  (Forum would be an obvious  Romano-British translation here in Isca Silurium, but I think ffwrwm also means a bench or pew or comfy seat in Welsh, not just a meeting place …)

That sign at her foot reads in part:

Morgan le Fay is widely considered to have been the world’s most wicked woman — the half sister of King Arthur… she became a cruel and bewitching sorceress: no man was immune from her allure.

…

her wooden embrace immured Merlin the Wise forever in the heart of an oak tree where, lightly, she abandoned him.

…

and that thumbnail expands to explain how Neil Gow chose to sculpt her.

Needless to say, we are surrounded by Welsh dragons in many guises every time we visit Wales