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FAQs:
- Can I buy it on Amazon? Yes, but.
- Are you going to publish an eBook? No plans. I think the physical format works well for bedside, bathroom and lounge, and epubs always get pirated to feed the AI industry. I may do a hardback.
- I bought the 2025 almanac. Are the entries different in the 2026 one? Some are, but most are not. (Improvement is continuous: an almanac bought in October 2025 is different from one bought a month later. One day I’ll get the machine to spit out a change log.)
- Are you going to do other flavours? I have found the synopsis of an apple- and cider-based saga from the 1990s, but that new flavour may not appear till 2027.
- What about local editions? Slicing and dicing a Leeds one is easy – 2027?
- When will the 2027 almanac appear? July/August 2026.
- Does the tithe feature mean that the associations in question endorse this? Absolutely not!
- Why is the optional inside-front-cover artwork now £2 instead of £1? The artist, egged on by her mum, demanded a pay increase, & she had me over a barrel.
- How can I stay up-to-date and in touch with Yorkshire? There’s a daily Yorkshire Almanac email on the website.
- How do you find time? Maynard Ferguson has the answer (and watch the fingerwork at the beginning):
- Do you sing Yorkshire songs as well? Yup! Book The Singing Organ-Grinder to perform (sometimes with monkey) 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!
