If cute puppies, inspirational scenes or provocative pin-ups are a bit mundane for your taste, you might like Kevin Beresford’s 2011 Son of Roadkill Calendar. The wacky calendar features images of dead animals on the road or roadside.
Beresford thought the dead dogs, squashed squirrels, flattened fowl and hammered hedgehogs that he saw in his travels as a courier might have a higher purpose as images in a unique calendar. The Son of Roadkill Calendar is the latest of Beresford’s morbid datekeepers. It’s not for everyone though: Some shops refuse to stock the item.
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