I always get a buzz of excitement on polling days. This may be a throwback to when we'd get a day off school as the building was used as the polling station. Or perhaps it's because it's one of those times when I feel like a grown up - in a good way instead of a weighed down by it all kind of way. Or maybe it's because I'm to a certain extent a political being - not with any deeply rooted party political loyalties, but someone who cares passionately that each of us can make a difference, and that as a woman I cherish my hard-won right to play my part in the democratic process. So I practically skipped out of my child's school on thursday (which doesn't shut despite the hall being used as a polling station). I'm keenly waiting to see if my friend has been elected in the european election and will hopefully find out tomorrow. Meanwhile of course I'm disappointed that some of the more extreme parties did well, with policies that take us backwards in terms of equality and celebrating our wonderfully diverse society. I was taken aback by how many variants there were in terms of political parties on the theme of "xenophobes-r-us" and "get-out-and-stay-out".
Not that I really had much time to follow results yesterday. Life has been overwhelmingly full on recently. I'm very happy to report that I had a lie in this morning, and that this weekend is so far going more to plan than last week's, with lovely hugs and singing to start, then a film that had the song we'd sung in choir. There is NOTHING WHATSOEVER written in my diary today. I'm hoping to keep it that way, tho if I don't do a few jobs I know I will feel even more overwhelmed by the mess, so I will do something. Just Not Too Much.
Love lots.
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