Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Mature antlions look like a cross between a lacewing and a dragonfly. But it is their form at the larval stage that earns them their predatory name. These alarming looking small monsters dig pits in sand to trap the ants that they feed upon.
Dating from the 12th century, Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire is one of England's most impressive and oldest surviving castles. It is perhps most well-known as the site of the murder of King Edward II. The castle and gardens are open to the public.
The south west of England is blessed with three pockets of moorland - the two largest being Dartmoor and Exmoor. Exmoor, in West Somerset and North Devon, is particularly scenic, as it runs down to the cliff-ringed coast of the Bristol Channel and has some delightful fishing villages within it.
Mallard ducks are the most numerous wildfowl in Britain and can be found almost anywhere there is water, making them Britain's most familiar duck. It is the ancestor of most domesticated, farmyard ducks.
The array of satellite dishes at Goonhilly in southern Cornwall has been at the forefront of telecommunications history since it was built in the 1960s. It played a key role in the first transatlantic live TV transmission, conveyed telephone calls across the Atlantic, and is now an integral part of the space exploration programme.
Sir Francis Drake (1540 –1596) was an English sailor, slave-trader, pirate and explorer. He is probably most famous for being the vice-admiral of the British fleet at the time of the invading Spanish Armada - which was defeated. Drake was also the first Englishman to sail all the way around the world, and consequently made a Knight by Queen Elizabeth I.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.