Thursday 29th January 2026, 12.40pm (day 5,271)
The little Sussex village of Rotherfield has two things going for it, as far as I am concerned. The first is that it was where I lived through my teenage years, more or less. The fact it has never before appeared on the blog (thus becoming featured place no. 522 with this shot) indicates that I have had little reason to come back here since departing in 1988 — at least not since the rest of the family also decamped from there a few years later. But I did make a day trip there today, for curiosity and something to do as much as anything else.
The second thing Rotherfield has in its favour is its church, a 13th-century masterpiece, a monstrously large building for such a little place. It’s the only thing worth seeing in the village but worth seeing it definitely is. Check out those ancient murals on the wall ahead, visible to the left of and above the arch: not to mention the 1,500-year old yew outside. These things were seen…. and now Rotherfield may well be unvisited again by me for a decade and a half. But hopefully all this will still be there for many years to come.
Being 42 