Description
What’s this Year of the Sheep thing? Each month in the book begins with general meteorological data, leading to mediaeval recommendations as to what you might do, and thence to advice re application to sheep and shepherds and so forth.
Statistics for the printed version are still approximate, the ISBN still to be assigned.
Now book The Singing Organ-Grinder to perform (together with a gorilla) an instructive and amusing musical programme containing great tunes and great doggerel relating to the idea of Yorkshireness, taking you from the mythical beginnings of Yorkshire, via Viking berserkers, Civil War beer excesses, encounters with Robin Hood (in Yorkshire, obviously) and the Grand Old Duke of Pork, the Dragon of Wantley, an 18th century steelworker-turned-poacher, 19th century caricatures and serious inventions of Yorkshire character, fairs and fun, 20th century advertising songs, machine music about industrial decline, to a new song about the physical and philosophical nature of Leeds’s ginnels!
