Village Chill is the take-out ice cream counter at 325 Lonsdale Road in Forest Hill Village. City licensing still files it as ice cream, no seats: a sidewalk window, Kawartha scoops, a line that is the neighbourhood after dinner.

The statements kept repeating the name from May into July. Same merchant, same village, one post. The photograph is Forest Hill from Wikimedia — the hill, not a cone.

A summer habit, not eighteen separate reviews.