I have suits for work, shorts for running, boots for climbing mountains, tracksuit bottoms for vegetating, flip-flops for the beach, party shirts for partying and reassuring knitwear for meeting great aunts.
ARE you haunted by thoughts of spending your golden years vegetating in a dingy old folks' home, supping on denture-friendly peas and boiled beef, and playing endless rounds of cribbage?
Slowly but surely, these technologically unpretentious people will spend less time vegetating in front of the box and instead become their own television and radio programmers, listening to and watching their chosen entertainment on their iPods and other screens as they please.
While he was vegetating on a small family property in Cornwall, which he called a "cursed hiding-place" in one of his many letters to his adored sister and confidante, clever Nan (Ann) Pitt, help came from a politically powerful millionaire nobleman, Lord Cobham, who lived in splendour in a palatial mansion and vast park at Stowe, in Buckinghamshire, to which William and his friends paid visits.
So if your children are supposedly vegetating in front of the television when they watch it for hours, what happens when you show television to vegetables?
No news, however, to those who stayed home instead, quietly vegetating in their pajamas.
It made his blood boil to sit vegetating in Devonshire while there was fighting going on elsewhere.
I did find people listening to disco-decibel music, watching television, playing cards or dominoes, vegetating.
Then again, did Dolan banish Lin — who was about 20 minutes from being a former N.B.A. player while vegetating on the end of the Knicks' bench early last season — from New York on the grounds of his being an ingrate and daring to exploit his leverage for what could be the one time in his basketball career?
Far from vegetating, those at the Metropolitan Playhouse pirouette, leap, cartwheel and even do the can-can and the highland fling.
They would then find themselves confined to locked wards, because the homes did not want them mixing with geriatric patients: unable to go out, vegetating in front of the television and receiving little or no treatment beyond medication.
