Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Tulips were once an exotic species of plant that became almost a British obsession. First the Turks, then Europeans - including the British - admired these flowers, and the passion for them was even responsible for a financial crash in the 1600s.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is the UK’s largest nature conservation charity and the largest wildlife conservation charity in Europe. It was founded by two Victorian women.
Corgarff Castle, near Strathdon by Cairngorms National Park in Scotland, has a striking look - as a result of changes made over the years. Originally created as a tower house in the 1500s, it was altered in the Georgian period to create a fort for government troops, and this has left it looking strangely Napoleonic, sitting in splendid isolation beneath the Highland mountains.
For about 50 years, from the 1770s, the streets and buildings of Britain were greatly enhanced by the decorative use of Coade stone, an artificial stone made to a secret recipe.
Barbara Hepworth was an English artist and sculptor born in Wakefield in 1903. Her work made a significant contribution to Modernist creative ideas, and in particular, free form modern sculpture. Some of her work became a familiar feature of the public realm, and is now often unnoticed.
The Northern Lights, or aurora borealis, are famous as a natural light display in the Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high latitudes towards the arctic. But they are not unknown to be visible from the UK particularly in the far north of Scotland, and the remoter islands. They've even been seen from the Lake District, Wales and Exmoor.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.