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It’s that time of year again when pop stars, footballers and fashion models start flogging their annual wall calendars, Öğrenci Apartları hoping for an easy money-maker.
And it’s not hard to see why — as over 16million of us still purchase wall calendars, with Liverpool Football Club and Minecraft already lined up as bestsellers for Öğrenci Apartları 2022.
But one new release stands aparts from the rest.
‘Benches of Redditch’ lovingly depicts 12 benches in and around the West Midlands town and has been compiled by the UK’s self-proclaimed ‘dullest man’.
Retired printer, Kevin Beresford, 69, has been making calendars as a hobby for the last 18 years, including an infamous ‘Best UK Roundabouts’ calendar which first appeared in 2003.
Now, he is hoping to sell more copies of this latest venture than Meghan Markle’s children’s book, ‘The Bench’.
Kevin Beresford, 69, proudly launches his new calendar ‘Benches of Redditch’ while sitting on a bench outside a defunct chip shop.He hopes the wall calendar will outsell Meghan Markle’s children’s book ‘The Bench’.
Mr Beresford has been making calendars as a hobby for the last 18 years, including an infamous ‘Best UK Roundabouts’ calendar released in 2003
July’s bench on Feckenham village green is described as an ‘utterly delightful, Öğrenci Apartları ornate country bench’ which is ‘a mixture of wrought iron and wood’
The grandfather-of-two, from Redditch, spends his time taking pictures of the UK’s most mundane places including prisons, car parks and abandoned insane asylums.
Mr Beresford is also a part of the Dull Men’s Club, as well as being president of the Roundabout Appreciation Society.
He is even president of the Bench Appreciation Society, of which he is the sole member.
A bench for June, as Mr Beresford wryly observes: ‘An all-steel bench with curious scissor-shape arm rests.Located in the busy Winyates shopping centre. The small ashtray beneath the bench hardly seems adequate for the many smokers that frequent this spot.’
September’s solid log bench is ‘no frills, solid, log-type bench’. Mr Beresford adds: ‘Sitting pretty on a headless cross green opposite ASAP Printers. The printers of this ripping calendar.’
‘A very popular’ bench outside St Stephen’s Church in Redditch town centre, facing the war memorial, is the monthly focus for December
Mr Beresford said: ‘I like to go around town and just take pictures of things that catch my eye.
‘We pass so many places that we just take for granted on a daily basis, some of which, to me, are actually pieces of art.
‘I wanted to do a bench calendar this time, as a homage to park benches.
‘People use them for all sorts of things, from sitting, sleeping, eating lunch, watching time go by.Back in my day, Öğrenci Apartları we used to court on benches.