The Huddersfield Singers 2006 Calendar A superb Huddersfield Singers calendar has been produced for 2006, featuring photographs of choir members in a variety of interesting locations around the Huddersfield area. Excellent photography is complemented by interesting, original design: with every page of the calendar featuring its own musical border, containing music appropriate to each month, the Singers' calendar is strikingly unique. The calendars are available in a choice of A3 and A4 sizes, so you can pick the size that suits you best. The smaller A4 version is neat and attractive and doesn't take up too much space, whereas the larger A3 calendar requires more space but has ample room for you to write details in the date boxes on each page. Both sizes of calendar are commercially printed on best-quality matt-finish paper in order to allow you to write notes on them easily. Every calendar comprises fourteen pages: a glossy front cover and twelve individual matt-finish month pages, all in full colour, and a stiff backing board containing details about the choir. Below is a preview of the photographs in the calendar; click on each to see a larger preview of the page on which the picture appears.

	FRONT COVER St Paul's Church, Armitage Bridge, Huddersfield
JANUARY Bandstand and Temperance Society fountain, Greenhead Park	FEBRUARY Huddersfield Railway Station façade and Harold Wilson statue	MARCH Eastergate Bridge, Close Moss, Marsden
APRIL Gatehouse and main avenue, Beaumont Park (with acknowledgements to The Beatles)	MAY Lock 23E, Huddersfield Narrow Canal, Slaithwaite	JUNE Mediæval stocks, Marsden
JULY Locomotive lift-bridge, Huddersfield Broad Canal	AUGUST Victoria (Jubilee) Tower, Castle Hill	SEPTEMBER Waterfall near Eastergate Bridge, Close Moss, Marsden
OCTOBER Newly-restored Great War memorial, Norman Park, Birkby	NOVEMBER Cupola, bell & clock from Huddersfield's bygone Cloth Hall, Ravensknowle Park	DECEMBER 1st floor, Byram Arcade, Huddersfield town centre

Also available As well as the fourteen-page calendar, we also have a single-page glossy year-plan for 2006. This A4-sized item features the same photograph as the front cover of the main calendar, below which is a summary of all dates in 2006 (see illustration to the right, which can be clicked for a larger preview). Availability The calendars and year-plans are priced as follows: A4 (small) calendar: £6.50 + £1 P&P A3 (large) calendar: £8.50 + £1.50 P&P A4 year-plan: £1.50 P&P FREE if bought with a calendar + £1 P&P if bought separately To order copies, please contact: Mrs Barbara Lockwood Ashes Common Farm Ashes Lane Almondbury West Yorkshire HD4 6TE Telephone 01484 426507 Email <barbara@ashescommonfarm.co.uk> Web <http://www.ashescommonfarm.co.uk/> Cheques should be made payable to The Huddersfield Singers.

Freebies!

Download Year-Plan 2006 (1.3Mb PDF file)

The second free item is a screensaver for Apple Macintosh computers running Mac OS X. This is a slideshow saver featuring all thirteen photos from the calendar. (The pictures have been scaled down and reduced in quality to suit a computer screen, and so are not suitable for printing.)

Download Mac OS X screensaver (3.8Mb Zip archive)

(Version 1.1 update: now includes an improved Byram Arcade [December] photo)

Installing and using the screensaver

After downloading the screensaver file, your browser will probably unpack it and leave the screensaver on your desktop. If that doesn't happen, double-click on the HS06saver.zip file (which is likely to be somewhere on your desktop) to unpack it yourself. You should end up with a file called Huddersfield Singers 2006.slideSaver (again, probably on your desktop). Double-click on this to install it. (If your version of Mac OS X is old, it may not offer to install the screensaver for you. If so, you should move it into the appropriate folder manually. That's the <home>:Library:Screen Savers folder.)

Once installed, you will be able to find the screensaver listed in the Screen Savers section of the System Preferences application. Click on its name in the list to highlight it and make it the active screensaver. A preview should appear in the window when you do this. If you wish, click on the Options... button below the preview to adjust various behavioural options. The screensaver will display the photos in a random order by default, but if you turn off the Present slides in random order option, they will be shown in the same order as they appear in the calendar.

Credits

Logistical planning, transportation, sales and other assistance:
Barbara Lockwood • barbara@ashescommonfarm.co.uk • www.ashescommonfarm.co.uk • Telephone +44 (0)1484 426507