September
again saw me a bit too busy to do a lot of quilting, but I did manage to do some dodecagons
It was busy also because at the beginning of the month I had a little medical issue that needed
to be attended to
It took me a
little longer than I thought to recuperate, but the view back home was better
than the view before (above)
Excitement
this month came in the form of a very special police action taking place just
in front of me while I was waiting in front of the traffic lights at a large
junction close to our house. Already noticing lots of police in bullet proof
vests when I arrived at the red light (with one officer taking position next to my car), and a van on my right hand side, standing still, with the driver
busy on the phone, all of a sudden two black jeep arrived and out jumped a
number of plain clothed police, wearing masks, guns drawn. they surrounded the
van and shouted to the driver to come out. He did not, kept on talking on his phone,
and after a short stand-off (pfffff, still all those guns so close to me), they had
had enough, two of the masked police officers opened the doors on either side
of the van and while one officer put his gun away and started pulling on and
fighting with the driver, the other one first kept his gun pointed at the driver
from through the other open door, before entering the fight from his side,
after which the first officer was quickly able to pull out the driver and work
him to the ground where he was handcuffed and blind folded, before being led
away into one of the regular police cars. All the time a helicopter was
hovering overhead and the high school on the corner (Eline’s old school) was in
lock-down, with police cars in front of the entrance.
The arrival of
this special arrest team, all the regular police officers already there surrounding the van and the
helicopter hovering overhead certainly gave me the impression that this was a planned action
and I was really impressed by how efficient things were excecuted, the whole action
took only a few minutes and no shots were fired. Hats off to these pro’s.
With a police
officer next to my car and with being so close possibly being in the fire line should guns be used, I only started taking pictures and video’s when the action
was over and the guns had been put away.
As soon as I
was back on my feet again after the operation, preparations began for our daughter’s 21-dinner
party.
As is tradition she wanted it to be held at home and her wish was for one long table, with 24 dinner guests, we could just about manage that in our living room.
As is tradition she wanted it to be held at home and her wish was for one long table, with 24 dinner guests, we could just about manage that in our living room.
Lots of
planning, preparations, energy and time went into this evening, I even got
re-acquainted with my sewing machine to make the table runners
But it was all
worth it, it was a memorable, wonderful evening during which we got the help of
3 wonderful friends, Nathalie and Vincent helping out in the kitchen and
helping with serving our guests and Lucy (click) and (click) who made beautiful pictures
that evening, so we will always have those to remind us of how lovely it was.
Below a few pictures by Lucy, those who follow her blog and Instagram account will recognize her clean, fresh style of photography:
Below 3 pictures I took , strictly snapshot style ;-) :
Having
celebrated with a room full of people back home on the weekend of her birthday
we decided – as the 3 of us are foodies – that it would be nice as one of her 2
birthday presents to take Eline for her first fine dining experience to a
restaurant that we had been curious about and had been wanting to visit, but we
just needed that special occasion to do so. Well, this was it and they
certainly lived up our (already high) expectations.
We went to The
White Room on Dam Square in Amsterdam.
Her other
birthday present came in this little box.
It being a
special birthday (21 years) and us only having a small family we seldom have
large parties (the last one was 11 years ago) , so we thought we’d go all out
for this one and we are happy we did. It was so worth it.
So with some
lovely moments from September to look back on, I now look forward to October,
with some quilty adventures again.
Thank you for
visiting my blog,
Phyllis
