# Neither Nowt Nor Summat

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- Book: [Neither Nowt Nor Summat](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-mcmillan/neither-nowt-nor-summat) ([Neither Nowt Nor Summat.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-mcmillan/neither-nowt-nor-summat.md))
- Authors: [Ian McMillan](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-mcmillan)
- Publisher: ebury_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 8 h 31 min
- Narrated by: Ian McMillan
- ISBN: 978-14-7352-887-1
- Published: 2015-09-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 8 h 31 min

## Description

I’m going to define the essence of this sprawling place as best I can. I’m going to start here, in this village, and radiate out like a ripple in a pond. I don’t want to go to the obvious places, either; I want to be like a bus driver on my first morning on the job, getting gloriously lost, turning up where I shouldn’t. I’m going to confirm or deny the clichés, holding them up to see where the light gets in. Yorkshire people are tight. Yorkshire people are arrogant. Yorkshire people eat a Yorkshire pudding before every meal. Yorkshire people solder a t’ before every word they use... If there were such a thing as a professional Yorkshireman, Ian McMillan would be it. He’s regularly consulted as a home-grown expert, and southerners comment archly on his ‘fruity Yorkshire brogue’. But he has been keeping a secret. His dad was from Lanarkshire, Scotland, making him, as he puts it, only ‘half tyke’. So Ian is worried; is he Yorkshire enough? To try to understand what this means Ian embarks on a journey around the county, starting in the village has lived in his entire life. With contributions from the Cudworth Probus Club, a kazoo playing train guard, Mad Geoff the barber and four Saddleworth council workers looking for a mattress, Ian tries to discover what lies at the heart of Britain’s most distinct county and its people, as well as finding out whether the Yorkshire Pudding is worthy of becoming a UNESCO Intangible Heritage Site, if Harrogate is really, really , in Yorkshire and, of course, who knocks up the knocker up?