"Never apologise, never explain" - contemptible when John Wayne's character said it, and still contemptible in this thread...
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As for going shopping on a strike, it's interesting to recall that the original term used when the idea of a General Strike was invented back in the 1830s was "the Grand National Holiday". High time the name and the notion was revived.

We work to live, we don't live to work. Unless we are either crazy, or quite unusually lucky in the kind of work we are able to do.