Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Extending for just over 5 miles from Llanberis to Pen-y-Pass, the Llanberis Pass in Snowdonia has been the star of many a car advert due to the impressive backcloth of a drive along this dramatic open road.
One of the darkest substances known is Vantablack, absorbing up to 99.965% of visible light. It was developed in Britain in 2014, and first displayed at the Farnborough Air Show.
Burgh Island is a small island near Bigbury-on-Sea in south Devon, separated from the mainland by a tidal channel. It is notable for being the location of a grand Art Deco hotel, with associations to Agatha Christie, and for the bizarre 'sea tractor' that transports visitors over to the island at high tide.
Feral parakeets are wild-living, non-native birds that have established themselves as a colourful addition to the UK's wildlife. There are now estimated to be nearly 9, 000 breeding pairs in Britain. The origins of these birds are subject to speculation, but are generally thought to have bred from those that escaped from captivity.
Anna Leonowens was a Victorian Indian-born British travel writer and teacher. Her memoirs of her days as a teacher in the court of the King of Siam (modern Thailand) in the 1860s inspired the musical 'The King and I'.
Pluckley, in Kent, is said to be England’s most haunted village according to the Guinness Book of World Records. It is reputed to have twelve ghosts.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.