Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
The Glenfinnan Viaduct is a renowned feat of Victorian engineering and the longest concrete railway bridge in Scotland. It takes the West Highland Railway over the River Finnan 100ft below, on its journey between Fort William and Mallaig – and is one of the most picturesque train rides in the world.
It was not until 1871 that British Bank Holidays came into being. They were the result of efforts to give people more leisure time by banker-turned-politician Sir John Lubbock, the first Lord Avebury, who introduced the Bank Holidays Act in parliament. But the British concept has fallen behind a global trend, and now only one country in the world has fewer Bank Holidays than the UK.
Fancy a bit of atomic tourism? Somewhere hot for your holidays? Amazingly, it is possible to visit a place where boffins fire up a miniature sun and create energy from nuclear fusion. And it's near Abingdon in Oxfordshire.
The publication Comic Cuts launched in 1890, making it one of the world’s earliest 'illustrated newspapers', or comic books. It stood apart from its rivals because publisher Alfred Harmsworth undercut the business model of other comics, and would relentlessly advertise that it cost just one halfpenny (half the cost of other publications).
The Suffolk Punch is an English breed of working or draught horse that played an important part in the development of agriculture and pre-mechanised haulage of goods like coal and beer. It is a much respected and admired animal.
The children of Britain have been lucky enough to enjoy the adventures of three famous fictional bears - Winnie-the-Pooh, Paddington Bear, and Rupert. Rupert came first and still continues to this day, in his original format as a newspaper cartoon strip.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.