Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Maundy Thursday is the traditional British designation of the Christian holy day falling on the Thursday before Easter. It commemorates the Washing of the Feet and the Last Supper of Jesus Christ with the Apostles, and is marked in Britain by the distribution of maundy money by the monarch to the deserving poor.
A beautiful avenue of beech trees, planted by the local landowning family in the eighteenth century, has provided the legacy known as the Dark Hedges of County Antrim - a somewhat eerie landscape to be found near Ballymoney in Northern Ireland.
Glastonbury is a small town in Somerset best known for the famous music festival that takes place nearby, as well as numerous Arthurian and Christian legends centred on the town and its distinctive hill, the Tor.
Anyone who has visited or worked in the Soho area of central London will be aware of the welcome patch of greeney that is Soho Square, together with its charming "Tudor" hut. A mock-Tudor gardener's hut, one might think?
On the outskirts of Darlington, in the county of Durham, is an amazing sculpture of a locomotive made entirely of bricks. More than twenty years after it was unveiled, the Brick Train remains a beloved local landmark.
Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer, who has been cited as the first computer programmer. She was the daughter of Lord Byron, the English writer and poet, whose interest in mathematics and logic was encouraged by her mother, Lady Byron, who wanted to prevent her from developing her father's perceived romanticist insanity.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.