Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Mullion Cove is a picturesque harbour with a small fishing fleet on the west coast of the Lizard Peninsula in south Cornwall within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The Cove is accessible by road from Mullion village, 1 mile away, and also lies on the popular South West coast path.
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.
Oliver Cromwell was an English general and political leader who, first as a subordinate, and later as Commander-in-Chief, led revolutionary armies under the flag of the 'Parliament of England' against King Charles I during the English Civil War. He succeeded in becoming ruler as Lord Protector from 1653 until his death in 1658, when the monarchy was restored.
The kingfisher is one of Britain's most delightful and colourful native birds. When seen unexpectedly, it is usually as a sudden and stunning dart of jewelled blue diving into a river. The RSPB has estimated that there are between 4,800 and 8,000 breeding pairs thinly, but widely, spread across the UK. Their scarcity mean kingfishers are protected under Schedule 1 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
The first recorded association of Valentine's Day with romantic love is believed to be in a poem by Chaucer in 1382. Poems, tokens of love, and handmade cards followed through the ages until the arrival of printing brought the modern manufactured Valentine's card from the 1800s.
Towering over the city, the former monastery of York Minster can be seen from miles around. It is the largest medieval cathedral in the country, and is the seat of the Archbishop of York, who is number three in the Church of England hierarchy after the Queen and the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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