A flying visit.

This weekend there'll be a flying visit from a flying (and driving) visitor. Tuyet will head to Launceston tonight, stay somewhere near the airport, drive to Weldborough tomorrow and return on Sunday night - that's the plan anyway. Ben phoned from Derby this morning and has become more skilled at fossicking, or 'gemming' as the locals call it. He now has "a bag full of sapphires" with some of a size that can be cut and also some topaz. One of the locals is impressed enough to think about including him in their own gemming outings while also suggesting that, if Ben's too successful, they'll have to "knock him out and steal the gems - and the bike too". Of course they're not serious and it sounds like our traveller may be gradually traversing that invisible border between 'visitor' and 'local'.