Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
The Gower Peninsula in south west Wales is a particularly scenic coastal area which projects towards the Bristol Channel. It is close to Swansea in the most westerly part of the former historic county of Glamorgan.
Perhaps now better known for their North American relatives, beavers are actually native to mainland Britain. But these industrious herbivores were hunted to extinction in the 16th century by people who wanted their fur, meat and scent glands.
On the coast of North Wales, a bizarre Mediterranean concoction can be found - a tiny village of pastel coloured Italianate houses and sub-tropical gardens beside a river estuary. This is Portmeirion, the creation of Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, who purchased the estate in 1925 as a “neglected wilderness” and then spent most of his life designing and building this fantasy world.
Renowned for the carpeting effect they create in woodlands and fields, bluebells are an iconic British wildflower. They grow in profusion and epitomise one of the most hopeful times of the year - mid-April to late-May. They were voted Britain’s favourite flower in a Plantlife poll in 2002.
The familiar meat substitute Quorn, now a global product, is a British invention, created by Marlow Foods in Buckinghamshire towards the end of the 20th century. It was first sold in 1993, after 10 years of evaluation.
In 1998, wave erosion gradually revealed a mysterious circle of tree stumps on the beach near Holme-next-the-Sea in Norfolk. After excavation, scientists discovered that the trees had all been felled in the spring of 2049 BC. The purpose of "Seahenge" remains unknown.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.