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Welcome to my home town: How growing up in the Hundred Acre Wood prepared me for lockdown Anna Prendergast © Provided by The Independent During lockdown, many of us made the pilgrimage back to our family homes – and rediscovered them through fresh eyes. Part guide, part love letter, “ ” is a new series in which we celebrate where we’re from. After all, it could be a while before we can go anywhere else… Mention Forest Row outside of Forest Row, and you’ll likely be greeted with barely-stifled sniggers and side-eye. The village’s quirky congregation of Steiners and Scientologists, Mormons and druids, hippies and hipsters has earned it a widespread reputation as more weird than wonderful. So when people ask me where I grew up, I’ll often tell them the Hundred Acre Wood instead – you know, where Winnie the Pooh lives? Sometimes, I’m met with a blank stare, as if I’ve just said I subsist on a diet of honey and hunt heffalumps for fun, but mos

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