Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Skomer Island, just off the coast of Pembrokeshire, Wales, is known both as a wonderful refuge for marine birds and for its archaeological interest, with stone circles, standing stones and the remains of prehistoric houses.
Ivy is a common evergreen climbing plant, mistakenly thought to strangle trees. It is now better understood as a great benefit to wildlife - supporting at least 50 species of wildlife. There are two subspecies of ivy native to the UK.
“Back to square one!” is a phrase widely used to indicate starting again after a failure or dead end. But its origins are in dispute, although there are two prime candidates.
The hedgehog is one of Britain's favourite mammals, and was once a common sight in gardens and parks after dark. However, they are becoming increasingly rare, with the population thought to have declined significantly overall, and by a third in urban areas since 2000.
The Gobbins is a dramatically located cliff-face path at Islandmagee, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, on the Causeway Coastal Route. It runs across bridges over the sea, past caves and through a tunnel, along The Gobbins cliffs.
William Thomson, who became Baron Kelvin of Largs, was a Belfast-born physicist, mathematician, and scientist who made discoveries in fields as diverse as thermodynamics and telegraphy. But he is best-known for inventing the absolute temperature scale - or ‘Kelvin’ scale.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.