Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Kilver Court gardens in Shepton Mallet, Somerset were once the grounds of a country house. The impressive planting and waterfall are overlooked by the disused Charlton Railway Viaduct as it crosses the River Sheppey - providing a breathtaking 15-metre-high backdrop to the gardens.
Charles Keeping (1924 – 1988) was an English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer from London. He was particularly known for monotone illustrations of myths and poems, in a misty and often blood-soaked style that is very distinctive.
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.
Tardigrades, or 'water bears', are rather appealing microscopic-sized animals and the first known species to survive after exposure to outer space.
John Lewis came to London from a modest background in Somerset and founded the famous John Lewis Department Store on Oxford Street.
Medieval monarch King John was a hapless and hopeless king. He lost his lands in France, he lost the support of his barons, and he was even excommunicated from the church. And it does seem to be true that he lost some of the royal treasure in the Wash.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.