
After casting their ballots voters around Australia were greeted by cheery volunteers raising funds for their local school.
Sausages and elections go hand in hand in Australia. The schools and community centres which are used throughout the country as polling booths take advantage of elections to do some much-needed fundraising. The most popular fundraising event is the sausage sizzle.
All that is needed is a barbeque, sliced white bread and tomato sauce to make a sausage sandwich. Often fried onions are included. I have no idea why manning the barbeque is traditionally a male thing. In my family it isn’t.
But I digress.
Stumbling Through the Past was born a little over three years ago on the day of the last Federal election in 2010. I was writing up my thesis which included discussion of the Federal election of 1910. Writing about the Federal election of one hundred years ago was an obvious topic to launch my new blog. You can read that post here.
So I had to write an election day post today to celebrate the third anniversary of Stumbling Through the Past and pay homage to the event that helped me start my blog. But what to write about? I had planned to write a serious post about technology and elections, but it has been an intense week this week. I was in no mood to write a serious post.
It came to me when I saw that “#sausage” was trending world-wide today on Twitter: