In praise of eccentricity

I do like blue plaques, though they can be a little dull and worthy.

So this one made a pleasant change. Not on a fusty old building but in a meadow by the river. A choice of location, you might say, which is a little eccentric. But then the apple never falls far from the tree!

And after all, where would we be without eccentricity?

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time" John Stuart Mill, On Liberty