Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
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.
Powderham Castle is a fortified manor house in Devon, about 6 miles south of Exeter. It is a Grade I listed building, with the building and gardens open to the public.
Sir Humphry Davy was a Cornish chemist and inventor best known for his experiments in electro-chemistry and his invention of a miner's safety lamp.
We hear in Bond films and other stories about secret service organisation MI6, tasked with controlling British espionage abroad, and domestic espionage specialist MI5. But there were once other MI (Military Intelligence) secret service operators ...
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'.
A glimpse of the world of Narnia imagined by Belfast-born author C.S. Lewis has been created in a new public square on the Newtownards Road in the city, with a £2.5million installation dedicated to characters from the Chronicles of Narnia books.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.