General Election today.  And local council election here as well.  Double the fun.

Today is the first time I've voted 'properly' - the last election (2005) I was deep in final year exam hell at Keele, and had a postal vote.  Weirdly I seem to have a fairly vivid memory of walking from the house to the postbox with it.

But yes.  I've ticked some boxes.  And got odd looks from the polling station people.  Possibly because I was asking them really stupid obvious questions (such as "where's the box?" and "do they both go in the same place?"), possibly because I... continue reading »