Now we have been here in this house coming up to two years now and last year was the first time I had to get firewood delivered here.

One load was enough to do us last winter and it was pretty much perfect timing right down to the last fire and the coming of spring.

So this year again, after no contact I’ll be ringing up the number of our firewood man to see if he is still in the firewood game and also to see if he is still delivering it to the Northside of Brisbane too.

Now if he isn’t I’ll have to go back to plan B which is to drive around our area until I see a sign on somebody’s fence that sells firewood locally, look online in my favourite search engine and lastly is where I found old mate last time, at the local Caboolture Market on a Sunday sitting on his trailer full of wood.

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With all that has been happening on the news in the last days here in Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast and in other Queensland areas, the question has been asked on the radio today, also I then I saw it on TV tonight too in regards to kid trackers, do we need a GPS kid tracker for our kids?

We went for a family walk tonight and during these walks with the kids we talk a fair bit in between getting interrupted by a few of them constantly and so the topic come up, to tack or not to track the kids and later on after getting back we both settled on the verdict that tracking is not really necessary but education, awareness and self responsibility are probably more important in the long term for where our kids ages are at for the moment.

We aren’t saying that as technology advances and the tracking watches get a bit better at what they do as everything does, the kids fly the coop a bit and go for longer bike rides etc, etc that we won’t consider the trackers again in the future, but for the moment at their young age I feel the responsibility lies with us a lot more than them to look out for them as best we can.

So I thought I’d look into it anyway and see what was out there in the market place here in Australia in regards to kid trackers.

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