Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
The dream of a determined woman, the Minack Theatre is one of the most picturesque performance sites in the world. Perched on the cliffs on a headland near Land's End in Cornwall, it was built largely with hand tools, and was the life's work of its creator.
This very smart and distinctive bird with its tufted head is not a British resident but sometimes appears in large flocks in Britain in the winter, typically gathering in berry-bearing trees and bushes.
Edith Blackwell Holden (1871–1920) was a British artist and art teacher. She became famous following the long-belated posthumous publication of her Nature Notes for 1906, under the title 'The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady'.
The Museum of the Home, based in Hoxton, London, has recently been redeveloped to allow more of its rich collection of domestic furnishings through British history to be displayed.
There are 26 types of ladybird in the UK, many of which can be regularly spotted in gardens and woodland. Being spotted is the right word for seeing these small flying insects, as the familiar feature across the species is a range of coloured shell types with spots in numbers ranging from 2 to over 20.
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is the world’s leading gardening charity. Its aim is to enrich everyone’s life through plants, and to make the UK a greener and more beautiful place. The Society currently has five national gardens, through which it promotes a love of gardening.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.