The Haasje Klaas Klup

This morning I picked up the trophy for my squash tournament at work. I had the 2014 winner's name engraved in it. Next year is already the fifth edition. Super :-)

In the evening Simone and I had dinner with friends. We formed the Haasje Klaas Klup which is a gang of 8 (4 ex colleagues and their partners) and we have dinner a couple of times a year. Usually at a restaurant called Heasje Cleas in Amsterdam but sometimes elsewhere.

Last night we went to HC and it was a fun evening! :-)

Mara and Patricia.

Simone, Laurien, Ruud, Remy and Mara.

Laurien, Ruud, Remy and Mara.

Patricia and Martijn.

The dinner

Good morning. Looks like one of the new neighbours has been trying out their balcony and needs to get educated on social behaviour. There were just as many in my downstairs neighbour's yard... Fucking anti-social pigs.

Late arvo I walked in to town to meet some friends for dinner. I noticed the little house in the middle. It's an odd set of houses.

Guinness was good for me :-)

And so was the cottage pie!

Remy, Martijn and Mara. Patricia refused to be photographed. Must be a women thing...
We had a nice dinner and had ice cream for dessert and then one more drink somewhere else.

Captain Mara

A secret society known as the "Haasje Klaas Klup" a.k.a. HKK, gathered again tonight, in their "clubhouse" which is restaurant "Haesje Claes". Members have to be linked to the IT firm Furore and are allowed to bring 1 partner. So here's my ex-colleague Mara and her boyfriend Remy.

My mate Ruud, who still works there, and his girlfriend Laurien.

Ex-colleague Patricia and her boyfriend Martijn and of course yours truly.

The girls were very entertaining ;-)

Captain Mara and her boat with the teabag-anchor.

Patricia and Martijn brought me this book with 300 (chocolate) recipes as a late birthday gift. I like :-)

Halloween 2013

I quickly shot this photo while walking to the tram stop. I like it.

In the evening Marjolein came over for dinner and then we went to Mulligans for halloween. She wasn't the only devil, Paddy was one too!

Miriam.

Barry.

Yours truly.

Kees.

Petra.

Jos and Danny.

Martijn and Patricia.

All of us.

And Alex was there as well.

40 years of Vincent

Chocolate caramel pie at work for my birthday. I turned 40 today.

Lots of colleagues came to collect a piece. These guys always show up: Geert, Guido, Wim and Norbert.

One of my pie's biggest little fans, Ilse. She's only little but she eats the biggest pieces, awesome, best customer ;-)

The outfit (Tee and glasses) was a gift from Tanja. Yeah, thanks! haha

I left work early coz I took the arvo off. There were 2 Egyptian geese with a baby. Baby was playing Superman.

I was meeting people pre-dinner in Mulligans. When I got there Nicole and Marjolein were waiting for me already. Lovely welcome :-)

Later Danny and Patricia joined as well.

Vincent's angels, 13-09-2013 ;-)

We walked over to Wagamama at 18:30 according to my tight schedule.

Gerrit brought me a little bottle of whisky. I believe this is not a bad one!

Mickey and Nancy.

Eva and Mic.

Gerrit and Patricia.

Mickey, Nancy and Martijn, who joined later.

Had a lovely dinner at Waga's.

Then it was off to the pub where I was surprised by my good friend Jan who rocked up all se way from Sjermany!

Jan, Nancy (= Jan's sister) and Mic. We had a very full table and when people left, others would come in and join us. I had a terrific night, especially because my girlfriend Simone dropped by for a bit as well. She looked fantastic. I was very happy to see her :-)

At 3AM Nancy and I were kicked out together with Ruud and Laurien who arrived after the pics were taken. I haven't been kicked out of the pub for a while ;-)

Danny gave me a comic that looks real cool! The tubs with chocolate goodies are from Nicole, whisky from Gerrit and a T-shirt from Mulligans. I keep telling people not to buy me a gift but some just can't resist ;-)

Dinner with Patricia and Martijn

I started baking around 9 this morning. Had a lot to do today and I had dinner guests in the evening. I started with the crust for the dessert pie.

When it had cooled a little I added the caramel.

Because it's going to snow tomorrow I really, really, REALLY wanted to finish my work bench today as well. So I put it together while the caramel was cooling.

Workbench ready. YAY!

Then it was time to add the chocolate layer. Everything went very well.

Mid afternoon I quickly dropped by Nic for a coffee (and coffee ONLY! ;-) ) and had a quick chat with Cristina as well.

Then late arvo I started preparing a few things and then when Patricia and Martijn came over dinner was ready soon. I made salmon with veggies (also caramelised carrot) and roast potatoes. I gotta say, it was very nice :-)

Patricia and Martijn :-)

Splatter much?

Walking to work in the snow this morning I noticed somebody had used this public toilet and must've splattered a LOT!

My colleague paul is going on vacation for 4 weeks and I'm looking after his plant. My room is now a small forrest.

In the evening I went out with Patricia and Martijn...

... and Remy and Mara. It was a very fun evening!

Patricia and I had ice cream at Haagen-Dazs.