Starting about five years before he died, people took photos of their dogs outside polling stations and posted them on Twitter with the hastag #dogsatpollingstations. Timothy, of course, joined in.
We have photos from at least two elections – outside the Ruislip Manor library with the “Polling Station” signs. We used the photos on his calendars for the May page, too.
We of course never left him in his bag unattended, and but for a couple of seconds if walking somewhere tricky, would never even break eye contact with him while he was hung somewhere. he liked the reassurance that we were still looking out for him while he was hanging.
His polling station photos had him in his bag, but two of us went together to the polling station we only ever went to actually vote one at a time – we’d never have left Timothy unattended in his bag.