But what are they thinking of - a strike on a Thursday? Why not make it Friday and it would be a nice long weekend for all concerned.

You know..even though I said goodbye to our stressed-out deputy head by reminding her that working unpaid all day tomorrow was missing the point...I might be a bit snarky if they got a long weekend and I didn't.

My own union is so well-organised that it called our strike during the school holidays.  I didn't go in.  But, oddly, nobody noticed.