Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
The Waverley is the last seagoing passenger-carrying paddle steamer in the world. Built in Glasgow in 1946, her original working life until 1973 was sailing from Craigendoran on the Firth of Clyde to Arrochar on Loch Long. She now operates passenger excursions around the British coast.
Cawdor Castle is a castle in Nairnshire, Scotland, northeast of Inverness. The castle is perhaps best known for its literary connection to William Shakespeare's tragedy "Macbeth", in which the title character is made "Thane of Cawdor".
The common daisy is probably Britain's best known wildflower, carpetting many a lawn or grass verge with its long-lasting jolly white and yellow flowers. Purists might regard them as weeds, but to many they bring the spirit of summer.
London's expansion over the last few centuries is legendary. Many station names on London's Underground hint at lost greenery, especially in the northern section of the Piccadilly Line - Finsbury Park, Wood Green, Bounds Green, Arnos Grove and Oakwood. So was there some great lost forest covering what is now north London?
Macbeth, the villain of Shakespeare's famous play, was a real king of Scotland, and seems to have been quite a good one! His name means "son of life". Shakespeare is thought to have chosen to portray Macbeth as wicked to please his new king.
Dolly (5th July 1996 – 14th February 2003) was a female domestic sheep, and the first mammal cloned from an adult cell, using the process of nuclear transfer.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.