I love this time of year. There are so many public holidays. There's Good Friday and Easter Monday, Freedom Day (the 27th of April), and Workers Day (the 1st of May). I can just about cope with life when the week is only three or four days long. Then of course this year - yesterday - there was also the election.

Here are a few parties I hadn't heard of:

Abolition of Income Tax and Usury Party - AITUP
African Transformation Efficiency and Affirmative Movement - A-Team
Middle Party - MiP
Pro-Death Penalty Party
Right Party - RP
Super Party - SP
The Organisation Party - T.O.P.
United Moral Movement for the advancement of all - UMMA

Robyn's had some interesting thoughts recently, some of the unanswerable variety.

She's been quite interested in the election process. Though today I realised I may have left out a few salient points regarding the usual election process, as today she told me she thought when she was old enough to vote, she'd "vote Angie" because Angie (our cleaning lady) is so good at keeping things nice and clean.

Then just yesterday she said voting was a "big waste of money, and they never do what you want anyway". I think there must have been some chat at school recently, though possibly someone, or hopefully someone's child, is muddling up taxation with elections.

Later she was wondering about how life started, as when the first person on earth was a baby, who was there to look after them?

And she's currently annoyed with fairy tales, as they cause children to get excited about things, only to be disappointed later. She recently watched a Snow White movie. Apparently there's a wishing well scene in the movie. For a few days now, she's been yelling "Fairy" on and off down the old well in our garden, in the hope that her wish will come true.

She's now making a fairy garden. This is the poem she dictated to her Granny to write on a little sign to put in the fairy garden.

Sing-a-long fairies and angels!
Let's go down to play.
We like to sit and watch butterflies
And we like to say Hip Hooray!