Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
The Helford River is one of the most unspoilt regions in Cornwall. It is a flooded river valley, fed by streams into its seven creeks. These creeks include Frenchman's Creek, made famous by Daphne du Maurier in her novel of the same name.
Ponden Hall is a former farmhouse near Stanbury in West Yorkshire, and is reputedly the inspiration for several distinctive buildings in the works of both Anne and Emily Brontë.
Ernest Howard Shepard OBE, MC (1879 – 1976) was an English artist and book illustrator, best known and loved for his delightful illustrations for the Winnie-the-Pooh stories and poetry books and The Wind in the Willows.
The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is an impressive navigable water course that carries the Llangollen Canal across the River Dee in the Vale of Llangollen in northeast Wales. The 18-arched stone and cast iron structure was completed in 1805 having taken ten years to design and build, to connect local industries to the main British canal network.
Though the British Isles has produced many dog breeds, we seem less well-known for breeds of cats. However, there are several distinctively British cat types. One of the best known is the Manx Cat.
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).
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.