A GROUP of proudly uninteresting men have produced a calendar to celebrate everything boring and tedious.

The Dull Men’s Club – founded by Leland Carlson of Jewry Street in Winchester – has produced its very own calendar which includes a traffic cone collector, hedge enthusiast and drainspotter.

Founded in 1985 the Dull Men’s Club is a unique collection of everything trifling giving its monotonous members a voice.

Mr Carlson, 75, originally from Nebraska and known to his friends as Lee, said it was a prime example of just how trivial his comrades could be.

He said: “When we came to do the calendar a little while ago, we went to do an interview with John Richards – Mr October – and he said ‘what do you want to photograph? An apostrophe?!’.”

“We asked him to take us somewhere nearby where there was a mistake in a shop window or something and he said there were none since he’d been there!”

“We started in New York with something called the New York athletic club,” the retired tax lawyer added. “We were sitting around, having a beer and my friend was flicking through a magazine. It was full of different things like boxing clubs and rowing clubs etc, and he said ‘we don’t do anything like this, we’re really dull’. And so the Dull Men Club was born.”

“The building we were in is a really big building and it’s got six to eight elevators in it and we raced them to see which ones were going up the fastest.”

Now boasting around 5,000 members the group has grown from strength to strength gathering media interest from around the globe.

“Over the years there’s been a lot of media interest in us,” Mr Carlson added. “We’ve been approached by TV companies in Canada and Germany and we’ve even been commissioned to do a book – the Dull Men of Britain.”

The book will feature 42 exceptionally bland blokes all ready to talk about their less-than-interesting hobbies.

Within it will be all 12 men of the calendar including January’s Kevin Beresford of the UK Roundabout Appreciation Society and Ken McCoy who has recycled the same Valentine’s Day card for 35 years.

The calendar, which costs £10, also includes 125 national boring days including the Great Backyard Bird Count, Cumbria’s Marmalade Festival, Snail Racing Day and Mr Carlson’s very own Fill Your Staplers Day – March 9.