Memorable 2014 things

Memorable things from 2014

• Ian sitting in a 1926 Model T Ford
• Going to the Mad hatter's T Party & joining the Gangs of New Lincoln
• Watching the Tour de France come through Cambridge (by the Round Church)
• Ian defending the gin from fiendish aliens
• Going to St Ives Beer festival (and, as steampunks, being contractually bound to sup "Kraken's Ink")
• Liverpool coming 2nd, thrashing Le Arse 5-1 on the way (including a devestating first 20 minutes when we put 4 past them)
• Longitude 'Punked etc in Greenwich
• Ian getting cliped by a car on the way to work
• Meeting Jamie, Magz etc in Ely (in the Liberty Bell)
• Going on a beer tour of local area: 50ish pubs & a number of breweries in a square mile. Also that Loren lives where the dung heap used to be
• Watching "Blood Swept Lands & Seas of Red" being constructed in the moat of the Tower of London
• Watching Philae land on comet 67P
• Professor Elemental onstage in the Portland Arms & offstage in the garden (losing his pith helmet for a while to a random girl)
• Getting into Widow Culen's Well in Lincoln & discovering it's a very cheap Sam Smith's pub
• Being astonished at F1 cars all having 'nosecocks'
• Visiting Bedford and seeing a lovely church with Elizabeth
• The' Flying Display' at Lincoln Castle
• Ann & Ben becoming parents along with Scott & Bex
• Lou & co going to Newcastle to place Cath's ashes in the Tyne
• Lou having a glamour photo session in St Ives
• Ross Noble & 'tickling a pokemon'
• Hiding under the rail bridge in Ely when it was chucking it down (and weird sensation when trains went overhead)
• Watching Kath Burrows invent an unusual, nay unique, method of psyching out tea duelling opponents 
• Getting our photos taken with an old plate camera (and old wet print processing) 
• Watching Oscar Pistorius getting found guilty of manslaughter live from South Africa
• The 25th anniversary of Hillsborough

Just some of those we've lost in 2014

Eusébio, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Shirley Temple, Tom Finney, Harold Ramis, Tony Benn, Sue Townsend, Bob Hoskins, Jack Brabham, Maya Angelo, Rik Mayall, Eli Wallach, Alfredo Di Stéfano, James Garner, Robin Williams, Lauren Bacall, Richard Attenborough, Joan Rivers, Richard Kiel, Acker Bilk, P. D. James, Billie Whitelaw, Joe Cocker, Elena Baltacha, Jane Bown, Warren Clarke,  Gabriel García Márquez, Peaches Geldof.

2015 will be a duller place.