25th April 1987

Day three of my first tour in Lebanon with B Coy, 61st Irishbatt.

I was on checkpoint in Majdal Silm from midnight to 0800 and again from 1600 to midnight. An Amal patrol left the village about 2300

Two photos of the checkpoint in Majdal Silm, Lebanon in April/May 1987.

This fish tastes fishy

24th April 1987

30 years ago today, 24th April 1987, was my second day in Lebanon. I was on a post in a place called Majdel Silm and according to my diary I was cook for the day and went on checkpoint duty at midnight. This may have been the day I cooked fish for dinner using the engine oil for the generator by mistake. It tasted fine anyway since the UN seemed to buy only Plaice which can only have been improved by being cooked in an engine lubricant.

Just finished reading Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris, the second of her Sookie Stackhouse books. The television series True Blood was based very loosely on the Sookie Stackhouse series. I read a few of these in the past but never finished them all so I'm going to do that over the next few weeks. There are some characters and events in the books that would have made good television while Lafayette's character as a witch on telly was great though he was murdered at the start of Living Dead in Dallas.