Pensioner makes hilarious calendar featuring mobility scooters

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A wheeler-dealer pensioner is riding high after selling hundreds of copies of his hilarious calendar featuring mobility scooters in Benidorm.  Kevin Beresford, 72, first shot to fame in 2003 with his calendar celebrating roundabouts.  It sold 100,000 copies globally and earned Kevin the title of “Britain’s dullest man”.  Since then, he has published a series of sequels including Roundabouts of the World in 2016.  Other calendars have showcased his favourite roadworks, village notice boards and recycling bins.

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00:00My name is Kevin Beresford and I've been voted the dullest man in Britain.

00:07Can you believe that?

00:13I like to capture slices of life, if you like, as I'm wandering around towns that most people

00:19would just ignore.

00:20And a case in point is the calendar I'm doing now, Motor Scooter Riders of Benidorm.

00:27I was invited on a Spanish holiday last Christmas by a friend of mine, so it was a freebie

00:32holiday.

00:33He said, Benidorm's not really my cup of tea, but I thought, why not, it's freebie, don't

00:37look a gift horse in the mouth.

00:39And so I was strolling around these scorching streets of Benidorm and looking around, I'm

00:44thinking, wow, look at all these Motor Scooter Riders of all sorts of shapes and sizes, young

00:49and old, and I thought, and they've all got smiles on their face, I'm a growly, but, and

00:54I thought, you know, I'm going to do a calendar of Motor Scooter Riders of Benidorm, why not?

01:01And I just think it's a good topic.

01:04None of the photos were sort of just done, what we did, the rule of thumb was, it was

01:09Christmas Day, everyone was in a blinding, real good spirits, as you would expect.

01:16And so the rule of thumb is that we said, is this okay, thumbs up?

01:20And yeah, fine, if it was a thumbs up, then we took the shot.

01:24The other thing is, we wouldn't bother, the December page, which is my favourite, a guy

01:30who was dressed up as Father Christmas, he was a foreign guy, he weren't English, but

01:34he was pleading, pleading with me to take the photograph, so I obliged.

01:38So yeah, it was the variety of scooters as well, I'm not used to it, I don't normally

01:44like take any notice of it, but I think once you're in Benidorm, it's the norm, it's like

01:49the traffic's going up and down, up and down these boulevards, I don't know.

01:54It's glamorous to be in a calendar, is it not?

01:57It's glamorous to be in a nice 2025 calendar.

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