Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
The Llechwedd Slate Caverns are in the Snowdonia National Park near Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. This former slate quarry is now open to the public with various tours highlighting the history of slate mining in the area.
Blackcurrants have been growing in the British countryside since at least the 17th century, and this native northern European fruit bush is both a commercial crop, and a very easy to grow plant for gardens and allotments.
Samphire Hoe is an unusual man-made natural environment on the Kent coast, created with 4.9 million cubic metres of chalk excavated during the construction of the Channel Tunnel in the 1980's. It lies at the foot of a section of the White Cliffs of Dover near Folkestone, and it has developed a unique and intriguing ecology .
Once international trade began to flourish in the Age of Sail from the 16th century, a problem with navigation became pressing. Latitude (a ship's north-south position relative to the poles and the equator) could be reasonably determined by skilled navigators using a sextant, but longitude (the relative position east to west) was much more difficult.
Mary Toft was an English woman from Godalming, Surrey, who in 1726 attracted considerable attention from doctors, high society and even the King when she appeared to have given birth to rabbits.
Chiswick House is a Palladian villa in Chiswick, West London. It has been described as a 'glorious' example of eighteenth-century Italian-inspired Neo-Palladian architecture, and was designed by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington. It was completed in 1729.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.