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Britain's dullest man produces calendar of his favourite roadworks

2023-11-17 317 Dailymotion

Britain's 'dullest man' believes he has produced his most mundane calendar to date - featuring his favourite ROADWORKS. <br /><br />Kevin Beresford spent several months hunting down and photographing the 12 'most riveting' road repairs carried out in his hometown over the last year.<br /><br />The 71-year-old has now compiled them into a calendar called 'Roadworks of Redditch' which can be bought online for £12.50.<br /><br />Kevin has found unlikely fame as the self-proclaimed 'dullest man in Britain' flogging calendars on mundane subjects like roundabouts, allotments and car parks.<br /><br />But he reckons his latest calendar could be his dullest offering to date. <br /><br />Kevin was inspired to produce the unusual stocking filler after repeatedly getting stuck in traffic jams due to countless roadworks in the Worcestershire town. <br /><br />He says he has endeavoured to show the roadwork traffic lights all on red - because "that's the colour they always seem to be stuck on".<br /><br />Kevin, who is also president of the Car Park Association Society, said: “I don’t know if it’s a boring bridge too far. I think this may be my most dullest to date. <br /><br />"But I reckon people all over the UK will buy them as everyone’s been affected and irritated by roadworks<br /><br />“I live on the Evesham Road in Redditch and it has to be the most dug up road on the planet. <br /><br />"There’s roadworks all year round. It’s so irritating, but we’ve all been there. So it got me thinking and it inspired me to turn a negative into a positive. <br /><br />“I've waited the entire year and photographed them over the last 12 months, all around Redditch. <br /><br />“There's some roadworks with whole streams of traffic held up and some have got big holes dug up. <br /><br />"Others look quite dynamic, with the roads blocked off, so you get a full and varied selection. The lights are all on red as that's what they are always stuck on.<br /><br />"We all hate them but you’ve got to have them or the roads wouldn’t get done. It also does give work to certain people I suppose.<br /><br />“My calendars are usually unique. I think it’s the first one of its kind. I like to capture the slices of English life that no one bothers with. I always focus on the mundane.<br /><br />“I see it as a badge of honour being dull. I like being in the Dull Men’s Club. <br /><br />"I think women like their men to be dull and I believe dull people live longer.”

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