Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Rockall is an uninhabitable granite islet situated in the North Atlantic Ocean (and a familiar name from the shipping forecast). The United Kingdom claims that Rockall lies within its exclusive economic zone and is part of its territory, but this claim is not recognised by several neighbouring countries.
The first solid chocolate bar came into our lives in 1847, the invention of JS Fry and Sons in Bristol, founded by Quakers. Then in 1866, the first mass-produced chocolate bar, Fry's Chocolate Cream, was launched.
The Belle Tout Lighthouse is a decommissioned lighthouse, now holiday accommodation, and a much-filmed British coastal landmark located on Beachy Head, East Sussex. It is the precursor of the current Beachy Head lighthouse that stands in the sea at the foot of the cliffs.
Hazel is a small native tree of British woodlands, grasslands and gardens. It is well known for its long, yellow catkins (known as 'lamb's-tails') that appear in spring, and its green nuts that ripen to brown in late summer.
Mrs Chippy was the ship's cat that accompanied explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated attempt to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent in 1914–1917.
Ham House and Garden in Richmond is said to be one of the most haunted houses in Britain - home to about 16 ghosts including that of a duchess, her dog and a heartbroken servant.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.