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.
The Little Ice Age was a period of cooling that meant more severe winters happened in Britain between 500 and 250 years ago. The climate occurred in the Northern Hemisphere from the 1400s to about 1850 after the Medieval Warm Period.
Often called the bluebell of Scotland, the delicate, papery blue bells of the harebell are a summer delight of grasslands, sand dunes, hedgerows and cliffs.
23 and 24 Leinster Gardens in Bayswater, central London, may look very grand desirable houses to live in, but it's all a facade. Literally, they are clever fakes — built in the 19th century to hide the train tracks of the Metropolitan Railway that run beneath them.
Gretna Green, just across the border from England in Dumfriesshire is famous for its blacksmiths shop, where weddings of runaway couples were once undertaken. The first village in Scotland, it attracted couples who wanted to bypass the jurisdiction of the 1754 Marriage Act.
Thomas Paine was a Norfolk-born political philosopher and writer who helped inspire American patriots declare independence from Britain in 1776. He is perhaps best known for his propagandist texts 'Common Sense' (1776) and 'The American Crisis' (1776–1783), the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.