Isaac Newton’s Apple Tree
Isaac Newton was a clever guy, its no surprise he ended up at Cambridge University. When he was sitting under an apple tree one day, in Cambridge, all studious and thinking, legend has it that an apple bonked him on the head, knocked a bit of extra sense into his already sense-stuffed noggin, and triggered some thoughts about gravity.
Amazingly, and quite appropriately, the Botanic Gardens in Cambridge have a tree, which grew from a graft taken from the original tree, that Newton was sat under, the moment he had his awakening.
Olé!
Hottest Place in the UK ever
Cambridge Botanic garden claims to be the site with the hottest ever recorded temperature. In July 2019, the 38.7 degrees Celsius, taken in the garden, was the hottest ever temperature recorded in the UK.
Apparently, Cambridge is the driest region of Britain and has a more continental climate than most of the country. That sounds like the type of wishful thinking you’d expect from the Guardian reading snowflakey Remoaners of Cambridge. Get with the project man! We’ve left Europe. Can’t you tell? Recently, its been pissing it down in Cambridge every day. It couldn’t be any wetter if you sat in a swimming pool. In 2020 it seemed to rain every day from October through to March. Continental climate, boo! phhh! Brexit, yeh!
On Cambridge
Photos
Places
- Along the River Cam
- Beechwoods Nature Reserve
- Lamma’s Land
- Hodson’s Folly
- Wandlebury Country Park
- Magog Down
- Byron’s Pool
- The Busway
- The DNA Path
- Trumpington
- Hobson’s Brook
- Grantchester Meadows
- Cambridge American Cemetery
- Wimpole Hall
Seasons
Themes
- In the time of COVID
- Cool Bikes and Other Bikes
- Suburban Architecture
- Street Art and Graffiti
- Cambridge is a city, in which there are outwards manifestations of support for the European Union
Commentary on Cambridge
- Kingfisher Way
- Suburban Architecture
- The Museum of Shit
- Cambridge Botanical Garden’s two claims to fame
- 100% iphone snow didn’t fall in Cambridge
Attempt at satire
- Brexit denial in Cambridge Botanic Gardens
- One of the best experiences of my life was when I found out I was in a shop 100% committed to fresh British meat