Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire has been described as 'the perfect medieval manor house'. It occupies an island hemmed in on all sides by a wide moat, and has beautiful gardens as well as several secret compartments used to hide priests after the Reformation.
Before the bluebells arrive, one of the joys of spring woodland is the wood anemone, carpeting the ground with their luminous white flowers and neat, pretty leaves.
Shepherd Neame claims to be Britain's oldest brewer, beers having been made at its brewery in Faversham, Kent, for over 300 years. Since forming in the 17th century, ownership of the brewery has passed in unbroken succession through five families. It produces some iconic ales, including Spitfire.
The lost gardens of Heligan are located near Mevagissey, Cornwall. They are a rediscovered delight, typical of the 19th-century Gardenesque style - a term coined by Scottish botanist John Claudius Loudin, to describe a type of garden design that incorporates both formal and picturesque styles from the past.
Nightingales are the romantic focus of many famous British poems, songs and legends, and yet so rarely seen that they can appear to be fictional - or at least, to have disappeared from their traditional haunts. However, they still do exist, and are summer migratory visitors to south-east England.
William Tyndale's Bible was the first to be published in English and gain a widespread readership. The translation, in the early part of the 16th century, meant Christendom's Holy Book could then be read by a much wider proportion of the population, and this had a major influence on Britain's history.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.