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Film review: Pooh should stick to 100 Aker wood

Film review: Pooh should stick to 100 Aker woodBRITAIN has many hallowed literary sites. There’s Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon, the Heriot Country of North Yorkshire, itself just along the road from the Brontë sisters’ wuthering West Yorkshire. The Lake District belongs to Wordsworth, Dorset to Hardy and Bath has a 10-day Jane Austen festival. Books, buns and bonnets.Then, of course, there is “Hundred Aker Wood” where a teddy bear and his chum Christopher Robin had gentle adventures. Hundred Acre Wood is part of Ashdown Forest, on the High Weald of Sussex, just off the A22.Now reduced to about 6,500 acres of open access countryside, the Forest is more heath than woodland.But with its stands of Scots pines and sandy paths it still has the same magical tranquility as when Winnie-the-Pooh lived there in a tree.Quite a money-maker, the Pooh books of AA Milne. Coming to a screen near you is Disney’s latest cinematic exploitation, Christopher Robin, where Winnie, Eeyore, Piglet and the gang go up to London to help Christopher, now all grown up.Christopher is played by Ewan McGregor. Hum. Tiddely-pom. I love London. But sending Pooh off to the capital misses the entire message of Milne’s bear tales.In 1925, AA Milne, a Londoner seeking escape from London (see what I mean?) bought Cotchford Farm just north of Ashdown Forest (the property was later bought by Rolling Stone Brian Jones). Born in 1882, Milne was of that Edwardian generation who worshipped nature.Indeed, one reason so many men, including Alan Alexander Milne, volunteered to fight in the Great War was to protect our countryside.Love of nature was core to their patriotism. When Milne’s fellow Londoner and writer Edward Thomas, the man who penned the poem Adlestrop, was asked why he was fighting, he answered, “Literally, for this”. And picked up a handful of earth. Thomas died for it.That generation trooped off to the Western Front, saw the horror men inflicted on themselves and nature, and were Subscribe: https://bit.ly/2IWHwf8