Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
William Heath Robinson was a visual artist known for the humorous drawings that resulted from his fertile and inventive imagination. His name entered the language as early as 1912, and is still deployed today, when 'Heath Robinson' is used to describe the kind of outrageous contraptions that featured in many of his illustrations and cartoons.
A Devon textiles company, Heathcoat Fabrics, has despatched its wares to many locations, the latest being Mars. It was responsible for producing the parachute that helped NASA's Mars rover, Perseverance, land on the red planet on 18th February 2021.
The Little Ice Age was a period of cooling that meant more severe winters happened in Britain between 500 and 250 years ago. The climate occurred in the Northern Hemisphere from the 1400s to about 1850 after the Medieval Warm Period.
Weasels are the UK’s smallest carnivores. Around 7 inches high, with red or brown upper coats and white bellies, they belong to a group of animals known as mustelids - meaning they have a long body and short legs, and are related to otters and stoats (with which they are sometimes confused).
Bordering the River Stour in Dorset's Tarrant Valley is Keyneston Mill Botanic Gardens, with the claim to fame that the specialist oils it produces from its aromatic plants go to a master perfumery in Grasse, France - the acknowledged world perfume capital.
Manchester Town Hall is a Victorian, Neo-gothic municipal building, perhaps the apotheosis of Victorian civic architecture. Located in Albert Square, it is the ceremonial headquarters of Manchester City Council and houses a number of its departments. It was designed by prominent architect Alfred Waterhouse (who also designed the Natural History Museum), and was completed in 1877.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.