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The Fabulous Czainskis
He stuffed a dead pigeon and got the legs on backwards. She waded into the river at Hebden Bridge to…
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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…
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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…
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The Garden That Went to Sleep
Cornwall's Heligan is not merely eccentric. It is the strangest, saddest, most gloriously peculiar estate in that part of Britain…
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Editor at the Roost
Dare To Be Eccentric?
In defence of originality in an age of conformity
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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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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.
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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.