Voting at the Sausage Sizzle places

Time for Australia to Vote! Well, for the 80% of voters who haven't pre-polled or done postal votes yet. I thought that was a phenomenal number when it was quoted on the News last night - even knowing that S and I were two of them - but more so (phenomenal) the explanation that people just wanted the whole thing to be over and done with and were voting early to make that their reality.

Chicken

It was a good breakfast at Kyogle - home-made fruit salad, toast, and scrambled eggs. Everyone was in fine form again - and Lo seemed to regained her voice after having been uncharacteristically quiet last night (which we still think had something to do with Ba being there). Pa was in fine form as well ... getting ready to vote for the first time! He has previously helped out with the National Party but he's not this year.

Ja had stayed overnight and we all saw her off. She seemed to have had a good time - so a successful visit all round.

Meanwhile, back at Latimers, word was that Deep Water Running had been cancelled and M was having a slower start to Saturday than is usually the case.

We had a great drive back up to Latimers and while we had thought we would stop at Uki or Murwillumbah on the way back for lunch, in the end it was too early, we were still full of breakfast, and we couldn't decided what we would have anyway ... and just kept driving home.

Of course, if we had thought about it, we could have checked out the website which showed which polling booths were having Sausage Sizzles and just called in at one of them on the way. I read on a friend's blog that she thought that was what most Australians were doing today - going to a Sausage Sizzle - and casting their vote while they happened to be there.

Fluffy Chicken

We did call in at a roadside rest stop on the way though and were more than a little suprised to find chickens there - different types, sizes and shapes (including a fluffy/woolly one). We were even more amazed that they didn't seem at all concerned that we, members of the human public, were in their territory. Of course, I couldn't help wondering what they were doing there ... and if they were the poultry from Chicken Run, settled in to their own resort on the Tweed River.

This evening, S settled in to watch the election coverage ... and while M was at home, she was sequestered in her bedroom, also, I think, watching television but possibly not the election. It didn't take long for the results to come back ... Labor, although polling better than the media had thought, did not win enough seats to be able to stay as the leading Parliamentary Party, and word came through just after 8pm that Kevin Rudd was about to concede the election. He eventually did ... at the same time saying he was going to relinquish leadership of the Party - but not saying if he was going to walk away from the Electorate that has just voted him back in. No doubt time will tell if that Seat needs to go to a by-election.

Meanwhile, based on what people - those barracking for a Liberal/National Party Win - have been saying, the day is going to dawn brighter ... and Australia is going to be a better place ... tomorrow. Hmmmm.