a federal election.

voting day to me always feels like a family affair.

not because my family all vote for the same party - far from it - but because i always seem to be in adelaide on election weekend and we always follow the same routine.

- have breakfast

- put the leashes on the dogs

- toddle down to the church

- have a short meaningless chat about politics

- put a number in a box

- feel like part of the wider community

- buy a sausage!

in recent years, the boothby electorate office has been really jazzing it up. i discussed this in my post about locating a sausage sizzle. cake stall, art exhibition, free funny face cookies! plants for sale, games, balloon animals. last time they even gave out free origami flowers.

as exciting as all that is, sadly, the sausage sizzle has suffered in the shadow of all these peripheral stalls.

taste: ✓

price: ✓✓✓

service: ✓✓✓

the onions were underdone (folding under the pressure of the lunch rush) and the bread split upon folding which means it wasn't fresh enough. or it had been out in the cold too long. much like the voting officials.

still, the man who gave me my sausage was very chatty and it tasted pretty okay for having been cooked by a chemical engineer.

better luck next time boothby!

here are some happy snaps, taken by my sister:

nirvana x

photo credits: nylanda ma