Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Wastwater is perhaps the most awe-inspiring of all the lakes in the Lake District. It is England's deepest lake and is surrounded by mountains, Red Pike, Kirk Fell, Great Gable and Scafell Pike – England’s highest mountain.
The House Sparrow, noisy, cheerful, and dead common - until suddenly they weren't. Data suggests the UK's house sparrow population declined by 66% between 1977 and 2015, with urban populations faring worse than rural ones.
Under a hill in Margate, Kent is a strange folly - an ornate 70-foot long subterranean passageway and large altar room covered head-to-toe in seashell mosaic. And nobody is sure how old it is or has any idea of its original purpose.
The Iceni or Eceni were a tribe of eastern Britain during the Iron Age and early Roman era. Their territory included present-day Norfolk and parts of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, in what became East Anglia. They were a significant power in eastern Britain during Claudius' conquest of Britain in AD 43, in which they initially allied with Rome - whose subsequent increasing influence resulted in a revolt in AD 47.
The often overlooked lichen is a plant with its own unusual way of life. It is a symbiotic organism made up of a fungus and an alga or cyanobacterium (or sometimes both) that can feel at home in almost any location.
These days the police service has rationalised its police stations, and not been particularly concerned about its physical presence on the street. But in the past, the police were very keen to show their face right in the centre of things. Hence a tiny police building in Trafalgar Square.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.