Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Pulteney Bridge crosses the River Avon in the city of Bath. Designed by neoclassicist architect Robert Adam in a Palladian style in 1774, it is exceptional in having shops built across its full span on both sides, one of only four bridges in the world with this characteristic. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
Macbeth, the villain of Shakespeare's famous play, was a real king of Scotland, and seems to have been quite a good one! His name means "son of life". Shakespeare is thought to have chosen to portray Macbeth as wicked to please his new king.
The Beauly Elm, believed to be Europe's oldest wych elm tree, has recently died after almost 800 years guarding the entrance to Beauly Priory in Scotland.
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.
Amost every August since 1994, the village of Kettlewell in North Yorkshire has been invaded by an army of whimsical straw men that establish themselves in gardens, on rooftops, and in hidden corners.
In Arthurian legend, Corbenic was the castle housing the Holy Grail, ruled by the Fisher King. It was also the birthplace of one of King Arthur's knights, Sir Galahad.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.