Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Far north in Scotland, an enchanting beach links St Ninian's Isle to the mainland, the largest island in the Shetlands. A peaceful place with a forgotten but ancient history, and buried treasure to boot!
Alfred is the only English monarch to be known as 'the great'. He served as King of Wessex, a Saxon kingdom based in the southwest of modern-day England, from 871-899 AD. He ruled successfully, emerging as a military force, with his most important achievement being to prevent an island-wide invasion from the Vikings and to establish a united Anglo-Saxon culture.
The semi-tropical Abbey Gardens, located on the island of Tresco in the Isles of Scilly, benefit from the warm flow of the Gulf stream, being set in the Atlantic 45km (28 miles) from Land's End. The 17-acre gardens were established by the nineteenth-century proprietor of the islands, Augustus Smith, around the ruins of a Benedictine Abbey.
Charles Pears was a British painter, illustrator and artist, born in Pontefract, Yorkshire in 1873, whose work was widely used to promote British destinations and events, including the art competitions at the 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics. He is currently the subject of an exhibition at Pontefract Museum.
Vineyards are becoming an increasingly common sight in the countryside of southeast England, and British wine has come a long way in recent years, winning numerous international accolades and tempting even the most discerning of drinkers.
Near the seaside village of Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire sits a Victorian folly in the style of an Ancient Greek temple. Amazingly, this was designed and used as a pigsty.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.