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