Today we metro'd out to the 15th arrondissement to browse a record collectors' fair held at Parc Georges Brassens. Although there was no luck for the record buyer amongst us (no matter how determined he was "diggin' thru the crates" - see top photo!), there was later success at a tiny shop called Rock Paradise! As I hovered ineptly like a broken turntable at the record shop, the owner took pity and offered me the one seat in the shop. I declined politely and tried to appear useful, holding like gold the found treasures, but once the owner joined Brent in flicking through those crates full of discs I thanked Monsieur for the chair, sat back and toe-tapped to the 50s rockabilly playing in the shop.
The weather was fabulous today and we lunched in the Parc, alongside students, office workers and those French "of a certain age" we're so familiar with who like to strip down to basics and soak up the rays! Une bonne journee dans le soleil.
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Hi Sally & Brent, Quelle bonne journee dans le soleil. Vous etes vraiment tres content. You were very wise to accept the offer of a chair, just tap your foot, don't worry about being useful. L&G
I, too, hovered like a broken turntable at Sportsgirl today as Ruby tried on a bevvy of items, only to be texted 'can you find me an xxs in the watermelon singlet?' I didn't mind the request, but I was seated right outside the change-room door! Fi
Hi Sally and Brent
Glad to see you escaped Monet’s garden and ended up in Max Ernst’s more intriguing surrealist garden which is a secondhand record shop.
It was interesting to note the different browsing styles in the photo. Brent has adopted the typical Australian Two –Handed Flick and Grab method; efficient and practical though a little lacking in style. The other guy on the left is obviously a local as he is using the more sophisticated Parisian One-Hand Shuffle. This allows him to locate the discs with one paw while leaving the other hand free to turn the pages of his Proust novel, light a cigarette or unsnip the bra of a passing lady. Don’t try it Brent, it sounds easy but you have to be born in Paris to perfect it; you might end up buying a Proust novel instead of a disc, snipping the end of your cigarette and setting fire to the bra strap.
I love the look of concentration on Brent’s face. As each cover flashes by you can almost see the mental calculations going on – ‘Joy Division’s Disco Christmas Special’- got it, OMD’s ‘Organisation – special cut’ with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir doing backing vocals – got it, ‘Ernie Sigley’s Bush Ballads – yeech, someone call an ambulance!’
Love Fiona, Paul and Ruby
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