National Elections 2019. Today was the day. Google even acknowledged it…
The voting station we have used since 1994 is at Sun Valley Primary school. We were there by about 7-15am this morning in time for their 7am start….but they were not yet open. The queue was growing but not moving. I did a walk around the school and when I got back, people were leaving in droves. The news was they didn’t have the right documentation and they didn’t know when it would arrive. So we joined the leaving crowd and drove to Noordhoek Farm Village where we picked up some pastries. On the way back, we heard the news that all fixed and SVPS election station was open and up and running. We returned there and got in the queue…
The queue started to move quite quickly and soon we were about to enter the building…
The reason it was going so quickly was because an on-the-ball official called Nelly was walking up and down the queue gathering ID documents 2 by 2, taking them back to the hall and printing out the initial little piece of paper. She then returned the document with the piece of paper and it allowed each voter to skip the first station. It was so efficient. We found our names, had our left thumbnail marked and got to vote. It took 45 minutes in all and we were home by 9am in time for coffee and a croissant.
Then I had to work. But I didn’t have too much to do and by the end of today I’ve only done about 4.5 hours. A nice change.
Early evening, Mike and I walked around the neighbourhood and past SVPS again. We asked one of the political parties represented what voter turnout had been like and they said it was very high. That was good.
When I got home, this news had broken. The newly born royal has a name. Welcome to the world Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor. He won’t be Prince Archie until Prince Charles becomes King. Harry and Meghan have apparently elected not to use titles for him at this stage, so Archie it is. Not Earl of Dumbarton. Just Archie. I like it. He even has his own Wiki page already. What a lovely photo of him meeting the Queen.
Another important moment today. We got another no objection letter from one of the neighbours. Two down, four to go. Tomorrow, I may go and knock on the door of the one whose email address we don’t have.
Psalm 119:160
The entirety of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever.
These are the days.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you.
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂
Gym:
Swam 50 lengths – it was 20 crawl, 10 breaststroke, 10 backstroke and 10 a mix of all those.
Braces:
Day 176