Winnie-the-Pooh’s 100th birthday is a great excuse to explore the Sussex forest that inspired the books (opens in new tab)

To mark the anniversary there are dozens of events planned around Ashdown Forest (aka the Hundred Acre Wood) – and, of course, playing Pooh Sticks is always a good ideaDeep in a medieval hunting forest, amid 6,500 acres of heathland, a wooden bridge spans a tributary of the River Medway. Every single day, no matter the weather, people flock to stand on its slats and cheer on sticks as they float downstream.I know this because on a frosty but sunny morning, (“a very long time ago now, about la...