Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Said to be the smallest house in Britain, this property on the quay side of Conwy harbour in North Wales might be described by an estate agent as 'compact', as it is just six feet wide, 11 feet high and just goes back a similar distance. But it does have a great view across the water. It was last occupied as a residence until May 1900 when the occupant was a six fee three inches tall fisherman named Robert Jones.
Light pollution has meant that the beauty of the night sky has been lost in many built up areas of Britain. But in 12 Dark Sky Places - Parks and Reserves - it's possible to experience truly dark skies - and see far-off stars and galaxies, just as our ancestors did.
Æthelfrith (593-616 AD) was an Anglo-Saxon king based in North East England. He went on to expand his territory, and become the first King of Northumbria. He was especially notable for his victories against the Britons and over the Gaels of Dál Riata (a Scots-Irish coalition).
Gigantic cooling towers built to go with coal fired power stations were once a familiar and distinctive part of the British landscape, but they are fast disappearing now, in a series of dramatic demolitions.
The pale gold stones of Lacock Abbey had already seen 600 years of human history when William Henry Fox Talbot took a photo of a small window there in 1835, creating the earliest surviving photographic negative.
The unimaginatively named blackbird is one of the most common UK birds. The bright orange-yellow beak and eye-ring make adult male blackbirds a striking garden visitor, and its beautiful song is much admired.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.