Rode up to resort relatively early cos there was a memorial ceremony for the 'parachutage' (RAF drop of munitions and supplies to the resistance). I always do my best to get to this and was lucky after the shoulder op that the weekend they insisted that I go home was the weekend of the 15th! It's on the 15th August for a couple of reasons - it's a bank holiday (Assumption of Mary?!!) and the actual drop was in the winter so not really feasible to have any kind of ceremony thenIt always makes me emotional, not least due to the EU flag flying with the French and Savoie flags. The first one I went to (the first time I realised they did a ceremony at the memorial that I go 'chat' to regularly) was just after the Brexit vote and it made me really sad that we were stood there celebrating unity and working together just a couple of months after a vote to leave the EU
(Please don't turn this into a political thread, this is just how 'I' felt!!). My grandfather joined the navy very under age for the first world war and stayed in for the second (ended up in Australia at some point teaching their pilots to fly!!) and my Dad was in the army in a couple of conflicts (he didn't talk about it much and Grandpop died when I was 11, so I really need to get their military records sometime to find out more! But essentially I love that there is a memorial to unity between the RAF and the Resistance just outside my apartment Then met a friend for lunch (he came to the memorial, but his dog is in toddler mode and got a bit ansty so he took her off to walk halfway through!).
My physio is determined to push my buttons and read more into my comments than I think is actually there! I asked some questions about the metal coming out of my leg soon and he got all psychological on me. And then said I shouldn't ski this winter FFS!!!
He really should know better!! LOL But he did say to ask the surgeon Some friends run a bar in another village and have a bingo night twice a week - they asked if I'd help out (not work - can't work at the mo!!) so I did. Good for my vocab - bingo french and bar/drinks ordering french is new to me
And at the end when it was fairly quiet a french friend came in and we chatted a lot - much to the amazement of both my bar friends cos they've never heard me chat in french!! LOL Rode home to a conversation from an ex Blackbird forum friend who's going to be riding past next week and we're going to meet up
Whilst my knee is bloody unhappy this morning (bar work doesn't suit it right now!) I'm a very happy Noggin
And it's sunny again today - might hit the pool later 
