Usually we celebrate with cake, maybe a glass of something white (not milk!) and a list of fun (!) or interesting facts about the number (we know how to live!).. so here goes with this year’s list:

1. A fortnight has 14 days.
2. 14 is very popular number in the Bible, there were 14 rains, 14 lambs, 14 plagues, 14 rams, 14 cubits and 14 wives
3. There are 14 lines in a sonnet.
4. Fourteen is the number of forgetfulness.
5. 14 is the common designation for the thirteenth floor in many buildings for superstitious reasons.
6. “I'm just mad about Fourteen, Fourteen's mad about me” - a line from Donovan’s Mellow Yellow
7. The moon waxes for fourteen days and then wanes for fourteen days.
8. Fourteen is a composite number
9. A cuboctahedron is a solid with 14 sides. It has six squares and eight equilateral triangles.
10. In Tarot, the number 14 represents temperance, reasonableness, and self-control.
11. 14 is the number of pounds in a stone.
12. In golf, a player can have no more than 14 clubs in the bag.
13. Apollo 14 was the third manned mission to land on the moon on February 5, 1971.
14. .. and Marketing Doris is 14!