Is This Britain’s Dullest Man?

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Credit: SWNS  The ‘dullest man in Britain’ has dug deep to produce a bizarre calendar for 2024 – celebrating his favourite allotments.  Kevin Beresford spent months travelling around his hometown of Redditch, Worcs., to find the best green spaces on offer for gardening fans.  The 71-year-old compiled his 12 favourites into a contender for the most boring calendar of 2024 – devoted entirely to public allotments.  Kevin, who admits he could be ‘Britain’s dullest man’, says he dug up some surprising discoveries during his allotment tour.

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00:00 People have called me the dolliest man in Britain.

00:02 I've got no objection to that.

00:03 Dolly's the new black.

00:04 It's sexy being doll.

00:07 Hi, my name's Kevin Beresford,

00:09 and I'm the creator of Mundane Calendars.

00:12 And this one in particular is the allotments of Redwich.

00:16 I like to take shots of English life

00:18 that no one else would bother with, yeah?

00:20 I turn them into calendar formats.

00:23 I do roundabouts, prisons, allotments, all sorts of things.

00:28 I like to capture the mundane.

00:31 People have called me the dolliest man in Britain.

00:33 I've got no objection to that.

00:35 Dolly's the new black.

00:36 It's sexy being doll.

00:38 It's a badge of honor for me to be named doll.

00:40 I did this calendar in just one day.

00:43 Took me one day.

00:44 Redwich isn't a big town,

00:45 so it was easy to get around to all these allotments.

00:48 The only problem I endured was the security's quite tight

00:52 with allotments these days,

00:53 'cause, I mean, vegetables are so expensive, though.

00:57 Tomatoes, the class A of veg, aren't they at the moment?

01:00 So a lot of these allotments get broken into.

01:03 So I had to go up and ask permission to a lot of them,

01:07 'cause everyone wants to know

01:08 why I'm taking photographs in an allotment

01:10 before they thought I was casing the joint.

01:13 My calendars, they don't really sell in their thousands,

01:15 perhaps hundreds, and it all depends on people's mood.

01:19 I have been voted the dolliest man in Britain,

01:22 and I'm a member of the Doll Men's Club.

01:24 It started off in America by a guy called Leland Carson,

01:28 and he brought it over to England.

01:29 He lives in America and England,

01:31 so he decided to do the Doll Men's Club there,

01:34 and I'm the deputy assistant vice president

01:37 of the Doll Men's Club.

01:40 He's the assistant vice president of the Doll Men's Club.

01:44 We can't hold a higher office than that,

01:46 because it's too exciting.

01:47 So it's always gotta be a vice president,

01:50 never a president.

01:51 So yeah, I'm quite proud to be in the Doll Men's Club.

01:55 (upbeat music)

01:58 (silence)

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