Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
A great British culinary tradition is celebrated annually at the Marmalade Awards & Festival at Dalemain House near Penrith in Cumbria. Normally taking place in March, the competitive challenge attracts entries from all over the world.
Eltham Palace in South East London is a uniquely charming combination of Tudor Palace and wealthy industrialists' luxury 1930's Art Deco home. It has frequently featured as a setting in films and television programmes.
Sea kale, or crambe, is a species of halophytic (salt-tolerant) flowering plant in the genus Crambe of the family Brassicaceae. It grows wild along the coasts of mainland Europe and the British Isles. It is that giant cabbage-type plant commonly seen on stable shingle beaches.
Birkenhead Park, in Merseyside, which opened in 1847, is generally acknowledged as being the first publicly-funded municipal park to be established in the world. American Frederick Law Olmsted was inspired by his subsequent visit to this park when he later designed Central Park in New York.
The Turnstone can be spotted pacing around large stones on rocky and gravelly shores, flipping them over to look for prey. It can even lift rocks as big as its own body! Although a migrant to the UK, it can be seen all year-round as different populations arrive throughout the seasons.
Thomas Cromwell was an English lawyer and statesman in the early 16th century, who became one of the most influential people in the Tudor court, serving as chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1532 to 1540. But he fell foul of the mercurial king, and his serial matrimonial complications, and his resultant personal fate is a key part of historical author Hilary Mantel’s bestseller "Wolf Hall".
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.