<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/usual-suspects-aug16.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3856" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/usual-suspects-aug16-300x225.jpg" alt="usual-suspects-(aug16)" width="300" height="225" /></a>We had never heard of <a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/archives/2797" target="_blank">SteamPunk</a> until we came to Lincolnshire and it turns out the Lincoln hosts the largest SteamPunk event in Europe. We enjoyed last year's event so much we (I) put it into the diary (electronic of course) for this year and invited Graham and Sue up to stay specifically for the event.

A visit to see the wave of poppies off the castle walls and then on to see the steam punkers of all ages and genders parading their ingenious costumes around Bailgate.

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It is important to remember as I heard one of the steam punks say - "there are no rules regarding costumes and so nobody can say your clothes are not right".

The more ingenious the regalia then crowd it pulls will be larger and that's what it's all about - entertaining the crowds - and there certainly was a crowd - <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-37197054" target="_blank">click here for the BBC news...</a>