Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Stourhead is a grand 2,650-acre estate at the source of the River Stour in southwest Wiltshire. The gardens around a lake are famously beautiful, as is the view across the water to an Italianate lakeside temple.
London’s St. Pancras railway station is a celebration of Victorian grandeur and architectural indulgence, with a magnificent red-brick exterior and soaring clock tower.
John Nevil Maskelyne (1839 – 1917) was a stage magician, inventor, and scourge of fake mediums. As well as creating illusions and magical contraptions, he can lay claim to be the first man to 'spend a penny', having originated the coin-operated toilet cubicle.
Inside the churchyard of St. Pancras Old Church in London - considered to be one of England's oldest sites for Christian worship and burial - lies an ash tree. It is a unique specimen, encircled with hundreds of overlapping gravestones placed there in concentric circles by Victorian novelist Thomas Hardy.
Electricity pylons (or towers) have been part of the British landscape for almost 100 years, but are often taken for granted despite being an important part of the nation's energy system and an iconic design achievement. The number of pylons in the UK is over 90,000.
Originally bred as fighting dogs, the Staffordshire Bull Terrier, or "Staffie" has a mixed reputation. Many regard them with suspicion as aggressive dogs, but owners testify to the Staffie's loving temperament as a family pet.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.