Outside World
The Aunt Is Not For Sale
Colour-drenched walls, mismatched antiques, wallpapered ceilings and curious collections have returned to fashion under the banner of the "Eccentric Aunt."…
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Outside World
The River's Wife
When Meg Avon married the River Avon in 2023, many dismissed it as performance art. Three years later, after becoming…
Members
Eccentricity in the Blood
In the 1960s, John Blythe recalled growing up in the Eccentric Club founded by his grandfather, Jack Harrison. Half a…
Features
The Del Boy of the Forties
He played every wide boy, tipster, black-marketeer and fast-talking chancer that the British cinema of the rationed years required —…
Literature & Arts
Expressing Random Thoughts
More Artworks by Colin Shaddick
Features
The Wider Circle: London's Eccentric Scene
Beyond our own club, the flame of eccentricity burns bright across the capital and the Home Counties. So here is…
Features
How Eccentric is Downing Street?
Long before Downing Street acquired its latest occupant, Britain had entrusted its fortunes to an extraordinary procession of tree-fellers, tricyclists,…
Literature & Arts
Developing Characters
More eccentric drawings by Colin Shaddick
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Literature & Arts
The mermaid in a dog collar
From a vicar who dressed as a mermaid, preached with nine cats in church and created what became the modern…
Literature & Arts
Reflections Before Lunch
Set within the quiet rooms of an ancestral Irish country house, this contemplative piece explores memory, landscape, inheritance and identity.
Literature & Arts
Sid’s World
A series of light-hearted, whimsical images about Sid, a character invented by Colin Shaddick.
Literature & Arts
They Turned Out to Be My Friends
A personal recollection of representing The Eccentric Club in Devon by our member Colin Shaddick, who won one of The…
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Editor at the Roost
Lives and Portraits of Remarkable Characters
A short history of The Eccentric - its editors, its publishers, and why, after more than fifty years and three…
Literature & Arts
The Twitcher
I’ve always loved sketching. Much of my childhood was spent doing just that.
Features
The Eccentric Charigs
Wes Anderson had The Royal Tenenbaums . The Eccentric Club knew the Charigs — meet a court jeweller dozing under…