19th/20th Jan
Things have been sorted out at the bakery - if shit breaks out, there's a fridge prepared
, with a box of food and milk. The fridges are really large and at least they're air-tight (we hope.)
Nobody's really flipped yet although the first night of attack one of the vols. was forced to leave
a sealed room because he'd started to smoke (I guessed that might happen.) A natural reaction to
pressure for a smoker is to pull out a cigarette.
Because of how I felt on Saturday morning, decided to sleep in the bomb shelter for the night. Had
a shower after work then took my sleeping bag down to the shelter. At least if the siren sounded I'd
be there already. Had a sound night's sleep. No attack. Thank God!!
Two nights of peace and quiet. But we're always on the alert. Any unusual sound and we pin back
our ears, stand motionless, listening, just in case it might be the siren. Paranoia might be setting
in though - a car horn or the muezzins from Nazareth both sound very much like the siren, or so we
think at its first call.
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