41

I needed to do more shopping, beer as well. And I found a crate of Heineken with the superduper funky opener inside :-)

Also I needed to bake one more cake. It was the apple pie. And a very nice one it was indeed!

I got a lot of people over for my birthday today which was really, really nice! My house was nearly too small for all of them to fit. Early evening only Mic, Mickey, Noortje, Marjolein, Simone and Larissa were left.

This year's pressie-theme seemed to be "whisky and cars". Whisky because of all the booze I got and cars because most other pressies involved donations towards my little pony. I guess I better don't mix these two up ;-) I'm especially pleased with the little book on '76-ers coz it belonged to Simone's late father... I'll treat it well and I feel inspired to now collect other years as well.
I also got a photo of Simone, me and the kids which I like very much but for privacy reasons won't show here.

The "funniest present" award this year goes to Tanja and Patrick who gave me a puzzle of our new Dutch King and Queen. I will indeed finish this at some point and hang it up at work I think ;-)

I had a great birthday with all my family, in-laws, girlfriend and friends. Thanks guys!

Singing for the Lord

This lady sings Jesus songs in front of Central Station. She looks happy...

After work I was home for 3 minutes grabbing my squash gear and then I went to Mic's for a bite. It was busy.

I joined Mic and Mickey to their son's school. They had to quickly have a little chat (just to get updated) with his teacher.

Bye bye scaffolding!

Yes. It's Saturday morning and I have builders to let attend to. The scaffolding needs to be removed today and at the same time the plaster needs to be fixed. They have three hours.

It's coming down.

When the scaffolding was gone I quickly changed and rushed to Mic's for his birthday. Ben and Miriam were there too.

Mickey had arranged for a musician to play one of Mic's favourite classical pieces.

Mickey, Mickey's mom and Ben.

Birthday boy, Miriam and Mickey. It was fun and we had quite a few laughs :-)

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 ;-)

CS-BBQ 2013

Cheers! Today we had our annual BBQ at work. It was fun!

Ernst and I were the first to dig in!

Sitting in the sun.

Lots of sugar and lots of beer (not just the 1 can, no....)

After the BBQ I went straight to the pub where I met Mic and Mickey. Cuddly as always, I like :-)

Things were getting a little fuzzy once we got to their tram stop...

I always cross this bridge on my way home. Because of a big annual arts fair a huge fucker of a stage was build across the full width of the bloody bridge! Not clever! I climbed up on stage and left via the back where I met Mr. Security guard who was smaller than me... :-P

A farewell party for Nantko

Today was Nantko's funeral. It was going to be a very long and tiring day.

After the service and quite a few beers we went to have some dinner at 't Fornhuis in the Utrechtsestraat. It was very, very nice!

And then we went back to Mulligans to celebrate Nantko's life.

We celebrated a lot. At some point rounds of whisky were coming in so fast I couldn't keep up and my glass just got fuller.

Mic with Nantko's brother Wim.

Gerrit, Nantko's sister Eef and Marjolein.

The Tennessee Studs were playing, one of Nantko's favourite bands, and mine as well. Party music all night.

It was a night Nantko would've loved. There was laughing and there was crying, great music and drinks just kept on coming.

Cheers buddy, this is farewell. You will not be forgotten.

Cake lunch

I worked from home today after a visit to the doctor. Advantage is that I can have "lunch" at Cake Loves Coffee ;-)

I noticed a lot of Christmas trees being thrown out.

Takes them years to grow for 2 weeks of fun and then they're trashed.

Went to Mic for dinner and squash. Was nice seeing them again :-)

Foggy

Fog over my "street".

For behind Central Station.

More fog.

Mic, Noortje and Mickey. I went over for dinner and then squash.