<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/tattershall-castle1nov14.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2170" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/tattershall-castle1nov14-225x300.jpg" alt="tattershall-castle1(nov14)" width="225" height="300" /></a>After a difficult week with Jane feeling very unwell we were asked if we wanted to go with Dave &amp; Lucie to <a title="Tattershall Castle" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattershall_Castle,_Lincolnshire" target="_blank">Tattershall Castle</a> near Sleaford so we leapt at the chance.

The Castle is now owned by the National Trust and it was opened for free entry because there was a Christmas fair in the ground floor and in a marquee at the front.

This is an incredibly imposing building, all the more so because it sits on the very flattest part of Lincolnshire. Considering nobody has lived in the building since the 1600s it is amazing that it is still standing.

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/tattershall-castle4nov14.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2164" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/tattershall-castle4nov14-150x200.jpg" alt="tattershall-castle4(nov14)" width="150" height="200" /></a>The brick work detail is wonderful and to appreciate the whole building we climbed up the stone spiral staircase to the very top. Jane was in charge of the camera so she managed to catch me, Lucie and Dave inspecting the building work and the views through the murky morning sky.

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/tattershall-castle3nov14.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2165" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/tattershall-castle3nov14-150x200.jpg" alt="tattershall-castle3(nov14)" width="150" height="200" /></a>A comment was made that if you asked a modern bricklayer to do something like this they'd have apoplexy before charging an exorbitant fee and then cocking it up.

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<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/tattershall-castle2nov14.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2166" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/tattershall-castle2nov14-200x150.jpg" alt="tattershall-castle2(nov14)" width="200" height="150" /></a>Even in the 1400s when the castle was built the architects had delusions of grandeur by including a flat-roofed area on the top of the building. We imagined the rich and powerful would be sitting up here on the loungers, soaking up the rays and being waited on hand and foot. If they weren't doing that then what on earth were they doing up here?

We enjoyed our visit, the craft fair was ok (I'm not a great one for Christmas fairs) and the castle was incredible so we rounded it off with a light lunch in <a title="Woodhall Spa" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodhall_Spa" target="_blank">Woodhall Spa</a> before heading home.