Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Shaw's Corner is an Edwardian Arts and Crafts style house in the small village of Ayot St Lawrence, in Hertfordshire. It was the primary residence of famous playwright George Bernard Shaw for 44 years, and now belongs to the National Trust.
Chesil Beach is an unusual coastal feature in Dorset creating an intriguing mix of beach and inland lagoon. The 18-mile long shingle barrier beach stretches from West Bay to the Isle of Portland and forms part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site.
The grey seal is the larger of the two UK seal species, and are particularly abundant around the coasts of the Outer Hebrides and the Orkney Islands in Scotland.
London's expansion over the last few centuries is legendary. Many station names on London's Underground hint at lost greenery, especially in the northern section of the Piccadilly Line - Finsbury Park, Wood Green, Bounds Green, Arnos Grove and Oakwood. So was there some great lost forest covering what is now north London?
There are 26 types of ladybird in the UK, many of which can be regularly spotted in gardens and woodland. Being spotted is the right word for seeing these small flying insects, as the familiar feature across the species is a range of coloured shell types with spots in numbers ranging from 2 to over 20.
Funicular railways have provided important links on steep inclines around Britain for the past couple of centuries. Famous amongst these is the Lynton and Lynmouth Railway on the coast of Exmoor, North Devon.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.