Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Leighton House Museum in Kensington is housed in one of London's most interesting Victorian villas. It is the former home of painter Sir Frederic Leighton, who had the house built and finished with an amazing Eastern-inspired interior.
The turtle dove is Britain's fastest declining bird species and is on the brink of extinction. A small and pretty pigeon, it breeds in lowland England and winters in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Towering over the city, the former monastery of York Minster can be seen from miles around. It is the largest medieval cathedral in the country, and is the seat of the Archbishop of York, who is number three in the Church of England hierarchy after the Queen and the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Manufactured in billions every year, the hypodermic syringe could arguably be the greatest medical device ever invented - especially in the context of the current global vaccination endeavour. A Scottish physician was a pioneer of this concept.
The ruins of Tintern Abbey, on the Welsh bank of the River Wye north of Chepstow, have for many years delighted walkers and tourists, and inspired poets and painters such as Wordsworth and Turner. The original abbey was abandoned after the monasteries were dissolved by Henry VIII.
The Standing Stones of Stenness, in the Orkney Islands, are reckoned to be the oldest of Britain's many Neolithic stone monuments. The purpose of the structure remains unknown.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.