Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
We imagine that Christianity was the bedrock of daily life in medieval Britain - in charge of the greatest occasions of life and death. Yet, during the reign of King John, the churches of England and Wales were officially closed to the citizens for over six years!
A walk through Chee Dale is one of the best hikes in the southern part of Derbyshire’s Peak District National Park, not least because of the fun of navigating some large stepping stones along the side of a river en route.
The beautiful Hestercombe Gardens in the Quantock Hills, near Taunton in Somerset cover some 50 acres. Three centuries of garden design history can be experienced here, from a Georgian landscape garden designed by Coplestone Warre Bampfield, to an Edwardian garden by the renowned architect Sir Edwin Lutyens and gardener Gertrude Jekyll.
The Merry Maidens, and also known as Dawn's Men, is a late neolithic stone circle located 2 miles to the south of the village of St Buryan, in Cornwall. The stones are south west of Penzance, and not far from Land’s End. They are consist of a restored, Neolithic stone circle of nineteen stones made using local granite.
An extraordinary Victorian building survives in south-east London. It represents some of the best architectural design and decoration of the period, with the interior a jewelled box of painted ornamental cast iron. Rather astonishingly, the Crossness Pumping Station is a former sewage works.
One of the loveliest of the wildflowers of Britain and Ireland, Meadow Crane's-bill (Geranium pratense) flowers are usually violet-blue, and sometimes a very deep blue on chalky soil, but pink and even pure white specimens are also seen occasionally.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.