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Britain's dullest men

Stow_judge

01 Oct 15 16:05

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Britain's dullest men pose for 2015 calendar, in pictures

The year begins with Kevin Beresford, from Redditch in Worcestershire, who is president of the UK Roundabout Appreciation Society, which he founded 11 years ago. Kevin, 62, spends his weekends travelling around the country photographing roundabouts and turning his pictures into books and calendars.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/11135885/Britains-dullest-men-pose-for-2015-calendar-in-pictures.html

A new collection of the dullest of dull men in Britain has been brought together in a new book. Last year Leland Carlson thought he had found the dullest men in the UK but now he has found even more. The 40 mundane men include a train station spotter, vacuum cleaner collector, handsaw enthusiast, mountain measurer and a plaque photographer.
David Grisenthwaite, from Kirkcaldy in Scotland, who got in the book for keeping a diary of each time he has mown the lawn since 1984.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/11898415/Are-these-the-23-dullest-men-in-Great-Britain-.html?frame=3456771

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Report Stow_judge • October 1, 2015 4:05 PM BST

Bottle banker Steve Wheeler, 66, from Malvern in Worcestershire, who has spent 30 years collecting more than 20,000 milk bottles features as Mr April. He found his first bottle in the mid-1980s and now Steve, who admits he doesn't even like milk, houses them in an 80ft museum in his garden. 'I'm Mr April as this is the month I give the bottles their annual Spring clean,' he said. 'I've met some of the other people in the calendar and I think we are all the exact opposite of dull. It's just that we don't do the sport thing, we are individuals and not team players. I have people come to visit my collection from all over the world and I'm about to expand my museum by another 24 feet.'

Report Stow_judge • October 1, 2015 4:05 PM BST

Meanwhile, John Potter, from Northants, who has spent the past 16 years putting together “the European train timetable”, is delighted to have been included as he previously did not make the calendar. “Not dull enough, apparently,” he said, although I do believe he might be under-selling himself here.

Report Stow_judge • October 1, 2015 4:09 PM BST

March's mundane man is drain spotter Archie Workman, from Cumbria, who works as a lengthsman maintaining verges and ditches. He said: 'I find the drain covers so interesting. There's a lot of history behind them. It's interesting to observe the geometry of the drains and how they interconnect. There's a whole world underneath us that we don't realise.'

Report Thin and Crispy • October 1, 2015 4:26 PM BST

All sound highly interesting compared to some of the Chit Chat regulars.

Report jed.davison • October 1, 2015 4:40 PM BST

The drain-coverist is a kindred spirit to Comrade Corbyn, who is also into these things.

Report A_T • October 1, 2015 5:30 PM BST

en McCoy, 73, from Leeds in Yorkshire, has sent the same Valentine's card to his wife for the last 35 years. Ken, a novelist who designed the card himself, first presented it to wife Valerie in 1979 and has reused it every year since.