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![📍[AD] The UK Holiday and Travel Show. ✈️
Today I visited London Olympia to check out #UKHolidayAndTravelShow with thanks to @destinations_shows. It was the first time I'd ever visited the show, therefore I didn't know what to expect.
As a keen traveller I was excited to see what the show had to offer families, and with over 150 stalls and exhibitors it did not disappoint. Although I would have liked to have seen more stalls dedicated to Family and LGBT Travel it certainly gave us food for thought when it came to planning our next trip! 🚆 I was also really impressed with the amount of choice available. As well as some huge brands like @flightcentreuk, @explore.worldwide, @cosmostraveluk, @trailfindersuk and @gadventures in attendance there were tons of independent tourism agencies and travel companies to explore too!
Although we haven't quite planned much for this year, it was really fun checking out everything that was currently on offer.
If you'd like to find out more about the UK Holiday and Travel Show, check out the link in our bio!](https://lesbemums.com/wp-content/uploads/sb-instagram-feed-images/328307734_203100108884119_7737745943754763216_nfull.jpg)
![Being part of the generation who started school literally months before the first l0ckdown commenced, our boy is pretty au fait with the concept of home-schooling, but today's homeschooling felt different. This time round we're home in response to a different kind of evil; our own government.
Being a public sector worker myself, with a mum who was a nurse for over 20 years and with friends who are teachers and paramedics, I am all too familiar with the effects of austerity. Therefore today, we gladly stayed home in support of teachers, as well as other Public Sector workers who have had no choice but to strike.
Of course it was inconvenient, but that's the point. It's meant to cause disruption. If you're at all annoyed or frustrated with the strikes then direct that energy towards your MP - not those who are under so much pressure, with such little funding to do their job, that they've had to sacrifice their pay further to take industrial action. You might also want to remind yourself that we're being given a day off in the middle of the school term for a poxy coronation, but the government seems happy to disrupt education for that though, don't they? Funny that. 🤡
Over the past few months we've had several conversations with the boy about the importance of unions and what striking means, and why workers do it, and I hope that he never forgets. I hope that he understands that public sector workers are lifelines to so many; not the bankers or business folk, and without them we would not function, and without Trade Unions we wouldn't have the benefits we have today. No paid maternity leave, no two-day weekends, no workplace pensions, no minimum wage, no equality laws. Just to name a few things that have been fought for.
To all our teachers, our nurses and paramedics, our railway workers, our posties, and our firefighters, whether you're striking today or not, thank you.
[Image description: Two photos of T sat at our dining room table doing his homework.]
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