They’re fun to fly and can take awesome pictures and video but they can cause all sorts of problems, including privacy ones, and there’s big penalties for breaking safety rules. People believe these small airborne camera carriers will spy on them in their backyards and peek in their windows.

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority says rules are there to protect people, property and aircraft from risk and fines can be more than $10,000. If you do something bad with your drone, you could end up in court.

Thousands of passengers were stranded at the UK's Gatwick airport because of drones deliberately being flown over the runway and 500 flights in and out of the airport were cancelled, causing mass chaos before Christmas.

But drones are a sign of the future, with the Westpac lifesaver rescue program launching 25 this week to patrol all Sydney beaches spotting sharks, saving drowning people and identifying rips.

Online retailer Amazon has been testing the use of drones to deliver packages directly to people’s doors, police are looking at them for crime detection while real estate agents are having a field day with the things taking photos of houses.

Tooheys is talking about drones saying it would be sweet to be able to deliver an icy cold six pack to your backyard, making empty coolers a thing of the past.

Just think: you’re at home with a few friends and you run out of beer so a call to the Great Western could have a drone on the way with your order hanging off the bottom.

Or you might want a pizza for lunch. Or KFC. The possibilities are endless. Books from the library and butter, bread and milk from the supermarket, all delivered by air.

But don’t hold your breath. CASA is concerned drones can become hazards as sales with people breaking the law by flying near passenger aircraft, taking photos from no-fly zones, beaches and from higher than 120 metres.

There’s no flying over people at festivals, sporting ovals, parks, busy roads and footpaths and CASA will fine people who break the law.

WHO doesn’t love juicy blackberries? They’re packed with vitamin C with just one cup half the daily recommended value. They’re also high in fibre, a great source of vitamin K and may boost brain and oral health.

Once we could head just out of town, find some blackberry bushes on the side of the road and fill a couple of buckets of the fruit that’s also a source of dietary fibre, vitamins C and E and other valuable antioxidants.

But blackberries in the wild have disappeared since being declared noxious because of the huge damage they did to grazing and forestry lands and sheltering rabbits and foxes.

Blackberries are now grown commercially although they’re a bit silvery with Woolworths selling them for $5.50 for a 125-gram punnet. Coles has them for a whopping $32 a kilogram but on special at $4 for a 125-gram punnet.

That makes them all the more expensive when you can buy 300 gram punnets of fresh cherries at Coles for $4.50 or $15 a kilogram. Woolworths is selling 500-gram punnets of cherries for $6.50 or $13 a kilogram.

So weren’t we lucky when we could pick our own blackberries for nix?