Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Near Godalming, Surrey, lies a romantic hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake. It was built by the famous swindler James Whitaker Wright with his ill-gotten gains, as a statement of his status in Victorian society. Whitaker Wright committed suicide with a cyanide pill at London's Royal Courts of Justice when he was subsequently convicted of fraud.
Lapwings are birds of farmlands and wetlands, and can often be seen wheeling through winter skies in large, black and white flocks.
By the early 1900s, writer H. G. Wells was leading an enviably bohemian life of critical and public literary success, wealth, fame, and adoring women - but his mother had originally lined up a career for him as a draper's assistant, which she considered a good, respectable career.
One of only three surviving bridge chapels in England, the Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin is a fascinating Grade I listed building. It is located in the city of Wakefield, West Yorkshire on the medieval bridge over the River Calder.
A sunken forest that can be seen in the sand at low tide on the Sussex coast is thought to be at least 6,000 years old - and a relic of a time when sea levels were about 100ft lower than today.
Dragonflies and damselflies are a countryside delight in Britain during the summer months - familiar for their iridescent pairs of double wings, colourful bodies and darting flight.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.