Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
The southernmost land mass of the British Isles are the Isles of Scilly, far out into the Atlantic Ocean off the south-western tip of Cornwall. Covered in heathland, and fringed with beautiful sandy beaches, the islands are the remnants of a large body of molten rock forming millions of years ago.
The bugle is a low-growing wild flower which produces purplish-blue flower spikes between April and July. Often to be seen on damp grasslands, scrub and woodland clearings on fertile soils, and alongside railway lines, the bugle is common throughout the UK.
The place names of Britain give a glimpse of our distant past. Many words are common in place names within a distinct area of the country, and are the last remaining fragments of former dialects.
Leighton House Museum in Kensington is housed in one of London's most interesting Victorian villas. It is the former home of painter Sir Frederic Leighton, who had the house built and finished with an amazing Eastern-inspired interior.
The first patent for what became known as the pneumatic tyre was filed in 1847 by Scottish inventor and engineer Robert William Thomson, who also invented the fountain pen. Thomson produced his 'Aerial Wheels' some 43 years before John Dunlop’s re-invention of the air-filled tyre.
Visible from the road to Mungasdale, Highland, on the west coast of Scotland, the small and treeless Gruiniard Island seems to have had a gloomy reputation for centuries. From the redoubt of thieves and pirates, to a home for a killer disease, the news has never been good.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.