House of Bling preview on BBC Look North

It is a little late but we have been mega busy (dusting, hoovering etc), but here is the Castle in all its glory on BBC look north.
Auntie came to visit us on the 7th August to preview the House of Bling exhibition, which opened that weekend. The preview was aired that evening.

The Travelling Wombat stays at the Castle for a week

10th August 2009














After a good rest and the end of quarantine restrictions Wombat finally decides he shoud visit the castle. First stop is to take the audio tour, unfortunatly the head phones he brought with him are a little too large for his head. If only he'd known that he could have down-loaded the tour onto his i-pod.


















Half way round his tour he runs into Trusty the Hedgehog. Trusty is also visting the castle on his nationwide tour of National Trust properties. Although very much different in sizes they share a love of castles and historic houses

11th August 2009



Alarm bells were ringing at the castle today, Wombat had gone missing!!! where could he have gone? Lost alone in a foreign county where could he be? After a comprehensive search he was found inside the castle sliding down the hand rail to the spiral staircase. NAUGHTY Wombat! It was so much fun though.









12th August 2009

Wombats day off today, so clive took him to see the sights of Lincolnshire, starting with the Humber bridge and then onto Lincoln.

After a long day out wombat decided to spend the evening bellringing with Clive. He got rather dizzy holding on to the rope.












After Bellringing he decided to sample the local ale. Unfortunatly it was a little too strong for him and he had a sore head in the morning.