Les Vacances de Geoffroi.

In recognition of my resurgent interest in M Hulot films, and in honour of the fact that I just had a visit from Miami Beach, I thought I’d post a picture of me with grandma at Blackpool (sur la plage, no less.)

She was quite the style guru, was grandma. She was light years ahead of everybody else in her taste for retro. And did you know that this very beach is the one on which the little dog ran with great aplomb and delight, carrying in his mouth a disembodied human foot, in the film Funny Bones? It was a sublime M Hulot moment. Connections, connections…