Barrie Juniper, a former member of the Department of Biology established a collection of 100 different sorts of apple in the Wytham Walled Garden when he and Stephen Harris were working on the genetics of apples. Many of these still survive, although some have died out.
The Walled Garden is not normally accessible, but on a couple of afternoons in the autumn it is open for anyone to come and pick the fruit (though taste them first, some are rather bitter).
What do you call someone who hangs out with musicians?
A drummer.
Okay, drummers get stick (sic). John Lennon, when asked if Ringo was the best drummer in the world, said he wasn't even the best drummer in the Beatles (actually that is probably apocryphal). But drummers are important and even cool, and none cooler than Honey Lantree. This is 1964 and women are not drummers.
The song itself is a piece of classic pre-lapsarian sixties pop produced by legend Joe Meek. Go Honey (especially from 1.27).
CaribOx is a programme of research exchange between academics in Caribbean institutions and in the University of Oxford. We hope these unique opportunities will build and propel significant and mutually beneficial research collaborations with academics across geographies. 2025 will be our pilot year for the programme.
If you want to be on the front page of a journal take a good photo. Tom Mullins' photo clinched it for the paper he wrote with Hilary and John Ockendon for the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.