karen.488walker
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last chapter of Winnie the Pooh, anyone read it? Just sobbed my way through it with my kids. Don't think they quite got it.
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Yes I have, though maybe it doesn't quite arouse that deep an emotion! The place mentioned in the story is named 'Galleons Lap' or something, apparently a play on the real-life location Gill's Lap in Ashdown Forest (do you know that area? It's close to the top of the infamous climb known as Kidds Hill aka The Wall). At Gills Lap there is a monument to A A Milne often visited by tourists, and the famous passage from the book is engraved on the stone.
But the illustration in the book does not match the locality Gill's Lap and I think it was more likely drawn from one of the nearby isolated clumps of trees. I'm trying to think of the name of one but it's not coming to me...
But the illustration in the book does not match the locality Gill's Lap and I think it was more likely drawn from one of the nearby isolated clumps of trees. I'm trying to think of the name of one but it's not coming to me...
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karen.488walker
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Must go. think it's in Kent and so am I.
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karen.488walker said:
Oh, I don't know if I could bear to read it then... I've seen it in shops, not got round to looking at it.
WtP (the proper one, NOT Disney) is probably my second fave book from childhood after Wind in the Willows - which is still one of my favorites, I even have it in French in my attempt to learn the lingo.
One day I'd like to do a ride from Cookham Dene, supposed setting for The River, to the setting of Winnie the Pooh.
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karen.488walker said:
East Sussex, according to Wiki....
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karen.488walker
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like the avator Arch.
Hartfield also has a 'must visit' for tourists and pilgrims: the celebrated 'poohsticks' bridge (some distance from Gills Lap). Not difficult to find as it's well signposted, though the bridge is quite a walk from the village centre. Arm yourselves with suitable twigs long before you near the bridge, since when you get there you'll discover that most of the bushes and trees have been stripped bare by other pilgrims bent on the same purpose. I can't promise whether Eeyore will show up, but I can guarantee there'll be plenty of other kids and doting mums and dads...
