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March 25, 2016by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

Uh…so, we went up to our friends Kaylea + Matt’s Bat Lake cottage last weekend, but I’ve waited so long to write this that I’ve forgotten all the clever things (or, […]

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Friends

Heluva Good dip weekend

March 29, 2015by Dan Dickinson Leave a comment

Last week our friends Kaylea & Matt offered to have us up to the cottage. We accepted; I needed a weekend off, and Nellie really needed a weekend off. We dashed […]

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Food / drink, Friends, TV

Navy strength

January 3, 2015by Dan Dickinson 1 Comment

On Wednesday Nellie and I rushed out of work (early; it was New Year’s Eve, after all) to come home, pick up our stuff, collect a couple of friends, and start driving […]

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Food / drink, Friends, Trips

Matthew Danger

August 26, 2014by Dan Dickinson 2 Comments

If you’re going to have friends, have friends who know wine and who can cook and who have access to a great cottage and who like to share and who […]

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Food / drink, Friends, Trips, Uncategorized

Mischief

July 15, 2014by Dan Dickinson 2 Comments

Last weekend, by the grace of good friends Matt & Kaylea, we made our now-annual pilgrimage up to a cottage in the Kawarthas. We stopped in Barrie on the way […]

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Food / drink, Friends, Trips

Matthew’s Magical Mennonite sausage

August 19, 2013by Dan Dickinson 1 Comment

After a delicious but cold excursion back in April, our friends Matt & Kaylea invited us back to their cottage last weekend. Things worked out much better this time, weather-wise. To wit: […]

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Food / drink, Friends, Trips

Freeballin’

April 22, 2013by Dan Dickinson 3 Comments

About halfway up to our friends Matt & Kaylea’s cottage last Friday we got a text from Matt telling us to meet them in Norland. Turns out he’d forgotten his key […]

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Food / drink, Friends, Trips

Drive it in

July 22, 2012by Dan Dickinson 4 Comments

It’s not often we get out of the city on a weekend to spend time at a cottage. Luckily our friends Kaylea and Matt are awesome and invited us up […]

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Food / drink, Friends, Trips

No thieves, fakirs, rogues or tinkers. No skulking loafers or flea-bitten tramps.

August 2, 2011by Dan Dickinson 1 Comment

This past weekend we partook of an Toronto tradition: braving northbound traffic to spend a night or two in nature, then braving the same traffic again heading back toward the […]

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