Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Cliveden is an English country house and estate in Buckinghamshire in the care of the National Trust. It has a rich history of upper class decadence and entertainment, and in the early 1960s, when it was the home of the 3rd Viscount Astor, became the setting for key events of the Profumo affair - a notorious political scandal of the era.
The Atlantic puffin is one of the most recognisable and popular of Britain's seabirds, with its bright orange beak and webbed feet. It breeds in the North Atlantic and the adjacent Arctic Ocean, with a significant population to be found around Britain and Ireland, where it is the second most abundant breeding seabird.
Lord Byron is considered to be one of the greatest Romantic poets in English literature, who is as notorious for his colourful personal life as he is celebrated for his poetic output. He was infamously described by Lady Caroline Lamb, a lover, as 'mad, bad and dangerous to know'.
The basilisk was a mythical monster that looked remarkably like a humble chicken. But it was not wise to look too closely, as the basilisk was one of the most fearsome creatures of the Medieval imagination. Sometimes described as breathing fire, one glance from a basilisk was regarded as lethal.
The now-ruined village on the island of Hirta, St Kilda, was once the base for a thriving community. It was abandoned in 1930, when more than 2,000 years of human habitation of these remote islands came to an end.
This year sees the 70th anniversary of the designation of the Peak District as the UK's first National Park. Officially established on 17 April 1951, it was the first of what are now Britain’s 15 national parks.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.