Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
A beautiful rock formation on the Isle of Skye on Scotland's west coast, the Old Man of Storr is said to be the graveyard of a giant. This intriguing outcrop, set in a stunning landscape, has featured in a number of paintings, and as a backdrop in many films.
The little Skye Terrier has had mixed fortunes over the years. Ancestor of many terrier breeds, this plucky hunting dog became a favourite of queens and great ladies, but now is an uncommon sight even in Scotland from whence it originated.
Bekonscot model village in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, is the oldest original model village in the world. First created in the 1920's by local resident Roland Callingham, it portrays aspects of England mostly dating from the 1930's. Not originally designed as a commercial enterprise, Bekonscot became an 'accidental' visitor attraction through press and public interest, and has been visited by more than 14,000,000 people.
William Thomson, who became Baron Kelvin of Largs, was a Belfast-born physicist, mathematician, and scientist who made discoveries in fields as diverse as thermodynamics and telegraphy. But he is best-known for inventing the absolute temperature scale - or ‘Kelvin’ scale.
At Markham Moor, Nottinghamshire, stands a rare early example of a concrete hyperbolic-paraboloid structure - the canopy to a former petrol station. This particular style of saddle-shaped roof enjoyed a brief period in fashion, both because of its inherent strength and its intrinsic beauty, in the 1960s, but few early examples remain.
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.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.