Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
At the heart of a traditional, family-run estate covering 3,500 acres of rolling Cotswold countryside stands a 200-year-old Mogul Indian palace, set in a romantic landscape of temples, grottoes, waterfalls and canals reminiscent of the Taj Mahal.
With a total area of approximately 61,414,400 acres (248,532 square kilometres, or 95,960 square miles), Britain would have enough land to provide each of its population with about 1 acre each. But land ownership is far from divided equally, and people sometimes ask who does it all mainly belong to? Is it the state? The Church? The Crown? Farmers? Private landowners? Or the National Trust?
Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (c. 1184 –1241), was a contender for the throne of England, but became the victim of a power struggle in the Plantagenet dynasty of English kings and ended up spending the whole of her adult life as a prisoner.
The Great Stone of Fourstones is a massive rock in a lonely landscape on the border of Yorkshire and Lancashire. It has stairs carved into it by an unknown hand, so one can climb up, admire the view and wonder where the other three stones are...
Piers Plowman is a Middle English narrative poem written by William Langland between 1370-1390. It contains the first known reference to the tales of Robin Hood, and is considered by many critics to be one of the greatest works of English literature from its time - preceding and influencing Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
In Arthurian legend, Corbenic was the castle housing the Holy Grail, ruled by the Fisher King. It was also the birthplace of one of King Arthur's knights, Sir Galahad.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.