Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Greenway House is an estate overlooking the River Dart near Galmpton in south Devon, once the holiday home of the author Agatha Christie, who called it 'the loveliest place in the world'. It is now owned by the National Trust and open to the public.
Pen y Fan is the highest peak in south Wales, situated in the Brecon Beacons National Park. At 886 metres (2,907 ft) above sea-level, it is also the highest peak in southern Britain (ie south of Cadair Idris in Snowdonia).
The Common Columbine is a British wildflower, now with a number of related variants, which may be more familiar to gardeners via its Latin name Aquilegia. Various cultivars of this pretty rich purple-blue wildflower are now available for domestic planting from garden centres, and often prominent at the Chelsea Flower Show.
Hamburgers were a mere 15p, and cheeseburgers cost 21p at UK’s first ever McDonald’s which opened on 13th November 1974 in Powis Street, Woolwich, south east London. The branch is still going strong.
Quixotic means someone or something that is romantic and unrealistic, or possessed by almost impossible hopes.
The Jersey (pictured) and the Guernsey are two similar breeds of British small-to-medium size dairy cattle originating from the Channel Islands, but now farmed worldwide.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.