A Stranger in a Strange Land

I saw this and was reminded of the headline in the Dumfries and Galloway Standard of April 1912 - "Disaster to Grand Liner - Dumfries Man on Board". Actually the Cumbrian woman in question no longer lived in Cumbria, but in Jerusalem. She had been an aid worker in Gaza, but wasn't any more. Just a tenuous local connection to misery in Gaza.
I had a few hours to spend in Carlisle. It was drizzly, but I spent some time in the library, at the shops and looking at Winifred Nicholson's paintings in Old Tullie House.
I'm now on a train to London, reading a novel by Robert Heinlein. The blip takes its title from the book, which takes its title from the Bible.