No nuking allowed by dogs!

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No nuking allowed by dogs!

My back yard covered in snow.

The front was also covered in snow. Since I'm a good citizen I keep "my" sidewalk clean.

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My street. I went for a walk to make some photos around the hood.

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Swan. Possibly the same as yesterday's.

The Secret Sisters

Walking to work I saw the canal had frozen over. Yep, it's cold!

While at work it started snowing. Quite hard as well. It put certain parts of the country to a stand still.

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My colleague Bjorn brought his dog Boots to work today. Boots is cool. And he's a good boy. It's very hard to get him to pose though but eventually he sat down, huffing and puffing through his little nose.

At the end of the day only 1 mini-bus was available so I let women and children go first... I had to walk through the (at some parts wet and muddy) snow with my sneakers.

I was meeting Marjolein at the station but the snow had also fucked up railroad traffic and she was 40 minutes late.

It was a nuthouse and by the time she arrived my feet were partly wet and freezing.

After a quick bite at my place we went to a concert by the English band Bellowhead.

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Their opening act were the Secret Sisters. Their voices blew me away! I bought their cd right away. It's a pity we got in so late that we missed two thirds of their concert...

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Bellowhead is a big band. Eleven members on stage. Their music was not like anything I had heard before really. This is one side of the stage...

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... and that's the other side. Very lively, energetic band. Bit odd that we were all seated...

The sunshine edition

My sunshine and I went for a bite at the new Wagamama again.

Because we went to Mulligans to see a band.

The cool building edition

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I took my big camera to work today. The weather was great and I wanted to make some decent photographs, possibly some I could use to create an HDR image.
This is close to my tram stop.

A ferry unloading and loading.

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Crossing the water. View to the West.

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Crossing the water. View to the East.

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Shipyard next door.

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We've got some cool buildings around where I work. Like this one.

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And this one.

A beautiful day

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This morning I visited a client from work. It's a mental institution. A BIG one. People live there on campus, some their whole life, supported by staff. Some only for a year to recover from trauma until they can look after themselves again. I'm glad these kinds of places are around.

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I drove back by train through a little nature reserve.

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Nice views as the weather was freezing but beautiful

I worked from home the rest of the day. In the evening I went to Nic's cake shop to fix a few things. I nailed down this loose skirting board.

And I painted the edge of the shelves white.

Snow

It snowed... a tiny bit. On cars...

On benches...

On the boats...

And in the parking lot at work.

And it stayed all day. Because it's cold. And I don't like the cold at all.

The canal tour

Marjolein and I went on a canal tour today, just for fun and to make some photos. The weather was rather shit however so the photos didn't turn out too well...

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Amsterdam looks nice from the water.

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Marjoleintje :-)

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This house was build by an Italian merchant in the 1700's. Rather awesome.

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We also saw these 2 swans. Magnificent.

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Three houses on the Brouwersgracht.

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Afterwards we met with Gerrit at Mulligans and then went for dinner. When we came back there was a ghost-dog!

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The bar.

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The session.

The weather forecast... Me no happy!