Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
The House in the Clouds is an amazing building in Suffolk, created to disguise an ordinary water tower. The delightfully located property is now self-catering holiday accommodation. Just the thing for the family that wants to get away from it all without actually needing to take to the air...
Boudica was a queen of the British Celtic Iceni tribe, who led an uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61. According to Roman sources, shortly after the uprising failed, she poisoned herself or died of her wounds, although there is no actual evidence of her fate. She is considered a British folk hero.
Of course, the idea of the shower has been around ever since the first person in need of a wash stood under a waterfall, but the first mechanical shower was patented in England in 1767 by William Feetham.
Flatford Mill is a Grade I Listed watermill on the River Stour, in Suffolk, immortalised by artist John Constable in 1816. The mill itself, according to the date-stone, was built in 1733, and is attached to a 17th-century miller's cottage, also Grade I Listed. One of the owners of the mill was the artist's father.
The ruins of Tintern Abbey, on the Welsh bank of the River Wye north of Chepstow, have for many years delighted walkers and tourists, and inspired poets and painters such as Wordsworth and Turner. The original abbey was abandoned after the monasteries were dissolved by Henry VIII.
Devil's Dyke is a beauty spot on the South Downs behind Brighton. It is still popular today with sightseers, paragliders and walkers, but was once an Edwardian pleasure park with cable cars, cliff railway, and funfair.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.