Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
At Crosby Beach, Merseyside, a hundred cast-iron, life-size figures of one naked man stare out across the water. Called "Another Place", this is a piece of modern sculpture by Sir Antony Gormley.
The carbonated drinks so prevalent today are one of the things that owe their existence to 18th-century British clergyman, scientist and polymath Joseph Priestley.
The rosebay willowherb is a striking wild plant with tall spires of large pink flowers, and leaves that grow like a staircase around the stem. Often found on the fringes of woodland, it presents a set of dense stands in the summer - attracting pollinators and offering a superficial resemblance to the foxglove.
Sir James Dewar, a Scottish chemist and physicist at Oxford University, invented the first vacuum flask in 1892, which became the accepted way to keep hot and cold liquids at their original temperatures. Though it was not Dewar, but the professional glass blower he hired to help him to make it, who patented the invention himself and named it 'thermos'.
Port Sunlight on the Wirral Peninsula is a 'model village' built by ‘soap king’ William Lever from 1887 for his production works, and to provide good quality housing for his employees. It is regarded as an architectural gem.
Quixotic means someone or something that is romantic and unrealistic, or possessed by almost impossible hopes.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.