Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
The Widow's Son pub in Bromley-by-Bow, East London, has its own version of celebrating the hot cross bun on Good Friday. Every year, on this date, a sailor from the Royal Navy puts a bun in the net hanging above the bar to continue an old tradition.
The British and World Marbles Championship is a tournament that normally takes place annually on Good Friday, and dates back to 1588. It is held at the Greyhound public house in Tinsley Green, near Crawley in West Sussex, though sadly, both the 2020 and 2021 events were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Helen Beatrix Potter was an English writer, illustrator, farmer and conservationist; she was best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as "The Tale of Peter Rabbit".
One of our most familiar waterbirds, the mute swan is famed for its grace and beauty. It is also considered to be a romantic of the bird world because partners form a perfect love heart with their necks.
The small English village of Willaston, on the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire hosts a yearly competition known as the World Worm Charming Championships, where competitors come from far and wide to try and convince as many worms as they can to rise to the surface.
There aren't that many weather legends in Britain, but one in particular will never be forgotten by most of those who experienced it. On the 15th October 1987, a woman rang the BBC concerned that a hurricane was on the way. Her suggestion was casually dismissed by the weather presenter at the time, Michael Fish, who was forever reminded of his faux pas, as that very night, a violent extratropical cyclone occurred, with hurricane force winds.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.