Where did all the eccentrics go?

Far not dar

It's slovenly and lazy as dar as I am concerned.

Eccentric meaning.... Unconventional and slightly strange.Going to the shops etc. in pyjamas is unconventional and slightly strange as far as I am concerned.

The two women in pyjamas I saw yesterday who were having a lovely chat on the street at lunch time looked much happier than me who was fully dressed rushing between workplaces. It may be sanity rather than laziness

Going to the shops in pyjamas is not eccentric. It’s just lazy.

On Monday I had lunch at a garden centre. A couple with a baby came in. The young woman was wearing pyjamas and dressing gown.
My 16 year old granddaughter is definitely eccentric. A whacky dresser. Different from her contemporaries. Her father is also eccentric in his dress as is a male friend, professor, very eccentric. They are around.

absent
I shall keep a good look out. I'm off to Lidl in a few mins - oh wait I'd better get dressed first.

I think it is a class thing. You have to be upper class to be an acceptable eccentric otherwise you are carted off by the men in white coats. But where are the white coats..

There was a rich woman 40 years ago hereabouts who kept a herd of milking goats. She had a parlour palace built for them while she slept in the hayloft in ( I'm told) squalor

Some of us are still around.

There were two women in their pyjamas in our Sainsburys on Sunday. I might have been less if it was close to a hospital but no...