Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
The largest castle in the northern Highlands, Dunrobin was extensively remodelled in the 1830s by Sir Charles Barry. It overlooks the waters of the Dornoch Firth and even has its own railway station.
Harold Pinter was a Nobel-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor, most prominent from the 1960's to the 1980's. During his 50-year career he was recognised as one of the most complex and challenging post-World War II dramatists. The term 'Pinteresque' is now used to describe a cryptically mysterious situation imbued with hidden menace.
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.
Garden gnomes - love them or loathe them. How did they become such a (often derided) feature of British gardens?
Although other nationalities have various cookies, pastries and cakes to their credit, no one in the world seems to have such a wide range of mass-produced biscuits as the British. One of the most enduring is the custard cream, handed down to us from 1908.
Christmas celebrations in the Tudor period were all about feasting and a break from the working routine. This period saw the arrival of the traditional turkey dinner.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.