Yes, it wasn’t me but how a boy from Small Heath supported the V is beyond me.
The man’s name is Kevin Beresford and it all started back in 2003. Here’s how:
"I run a small print shop in Redditch, and in 2003 I wanted to create a calendar for our customers. Redditch had three prisons, no cinema, but copious roundabouts and so, for the laugh, my employees and I decided on Round-A-Bouts of Redditch.
"I was in a pub one Friday night when a friend called to say it was on the Graham Norton Show. Graham was flicking through a calendar of gorgeous Greek islands with his guest and brought Roundabouts of Redditch out as a comparison. I absolutely loved it. It changed my life. Demand rocketed for the calendar. We had initially printed 100 copies – soon we were selling to people around the world."It sold 100,000 copies.Since then, he has published a series of calendars reflecting his interest in the ordinary things in life. For example Village Notice Boards. He says: "Why was I drawn to village notice boards? I have found you can learn a lot from a village notice board. As you approach one you can see even from a distance that with the amount of notice sheets pinned to the board you can get a fair indication of how much is going on in this small part of the world. Quantity on the board of course is not the be all and end all. One proud board can boast an art-house village cinema albeit a tiny one. Another trumpets Shakespeare’s play, Richard III....the half hour version. Boards proclaiming 44 days of art festival. And there is always the obligatory lost cat. Bless."In 2022 he published 'The Wonderful World of Jack Grealish’s Calves'. 
"When he left V.... to go over to the dark side, I felt that he was leaving us behind. So, when I first printed the calendar, I guess it was a little act of revenge. But I have forgiven him now."
He has made calendars of benches, bus routes, telephone boxes and other seemingly unexciting features of British life. He’s produced calendars of prisons and old asylums. He loves grisly subjects, steeped in history, although he’s also thinking of doing one on recycling centres.
He tries to do ten calendars a year. He gets inspiration from everyday life. Martin Parr, the celebrated British photographer, sent him a text saying he admired his work. He says that made him feel wonderful.His major claim to dull fame came in 2018, when he was named Anorak of the Year by the Dull Men’s Club. It’s an international collective of people that welcomes everyone, not just men, who find joy in the mundane. Their motto is ‘celebrating the ordinary’. Other members include a drain spotter and a fellow who has collected 20,000 milk bottles. After that, newspapers began to dub him ‘Britain’s dullest man’.His website can be found at: https://dullkev.com/
I’d have a calendar of Billy Collins poems.
Invention
Tonight the moon is a cracker,
with a bite out of it
floating in the night,
and in a week or so
according to the calendar
it will probably look
like a silver football,
and nine, maybe ten days ago
it reminded me of a thin bright claw.
But eventually --
by the end of the month,
I reckon --
it will waste away
to nothing,
nothing but stars in the sky,
and I will have a few nightsto myself,
a little time to rest my jittery pen.
Billy Collins
Thanks for reading, Terry Q.
