Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
The Loony Dook is an annual event held on New Years' Day in which people dive into the freezing waters of the Firth of Forth at South Queensferry (north of Edinburgh), often in fancy dress. It has spawned some other equally mad festive swims elsewhere,
Great big glorious gannets are often shown on our television screens nesting in huge numbers on inaccessible sea cliffs and islets. But they breed in significant numbers at only a few localities and so are an Amber List species.
The very first drive-through safari park outside of Africa opened more that 50 years ago in the grounds of Longleat, a stately home in Wiltshire. The concept of safari parks was the brainchild of Jimmy Chipperfield (1912–1990), former director of Chipperfield's Circus.
Many of the iconic bridges of the world owe their existence to the achievement of the world’s first iron bridge, built in 1779 across the Severn Gorge, near Telford in Shropshire.
Founded in 1670, the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh was the second such institution to be established in the UK, after Oxford's, which was created in 1621, and well before the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, which date from 1759. Just a mile from the city centre, it is one of Edinburgh's historic gems.
The historic Burnham Beeches have been described as one of the finest surviving woodland tracts anywhere in Britain, with a particular history of pollarding - the removal of timber from growing trees.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.