Election fun shows we're taking it seriously
When you see the rosettes on the beer pumps, like these at Winchester's Fulflood Arms, you know that people are starting to take this election seriously. Or not seriously in fact.
The other milestone is always the list of crazy names that emerges from nomination day.
My favourite has to be the candidate in Dorset South for a party entitled "Go mad and vote for yourself".
But he's got to be run close in Mid-Sussex by the Moster Raving Loony candidate Thunderclap Baron Von Bundys.
Just a little dose of that stuff is the perfect antidote to all the pontificating about the next leader's debate.
And in the interests of balance, mine's a pint from each of the three pumps. Hic!
Welcome to the hustings! I'm Peter Henley, the BBC's political reporter in the south of England. From parish councils in Sussex, to European politics in Oxford, this is the blog for you. 
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