I thought we agreed BBQs were a bad idea.

They need consigning to the history books. Awful things that have no place in society now. It's always people with big inflatables and huge trampolines in their garden, who sit out the front smoking pot who have barbecues. They need banning/taking off sale. Not just the disposable ones, ALL of them.

If you have a cooker/an oven you don't need a pissing barbecue!

I can see a disposable bbq is more risk as they're closer to the ground but a non disposable is too much of a risk where I am imo. People having a few drinks in charge of a small fire when its not rained for weeks near my home isn't something I would like at all.

I'm sure everyone who has used any kind of BBQ be it freestanding one or a disposable one would have said they were doing so sensibly until something went wrong. We've had two bin fires here recently from BBQs that have been left to cool down and not been cool enough. Both appearing to do the sensible thing but they still caused fires.

I really don't think waiting until there's been rain and everything is less dry is too much to ask.

We've also had fireworks over the weekend here.

They need consigning to the history books. Awful things that have no place in society now. It's always people with big inflatables and huge trampolines in their garden, who sit out the front smoking pot who have barbecues. They need banning/taking off sale. Not just the disposable ones, ALL of them.

If you have a cooker/an oven you don't need a pissing barbecue!

Why is your garden white?

What is wrong with folk. Barbecues are perfectly safe if used sensibly.

The Covid marshals are bored.

They need consigning to the history books. Awful things that have no place in society now. It's always people with big inflatables and huge trampolines in their garden, who sit out the front smoking pot who have barbecues. They need banning/taking off sale. Not just the disposable ones, ALL of them.

If you have a cooker/an oven you don't need a pissing barbecue!

They need consigning to the history books. Awful things that have no place in society now. It's always people with big inflatables and huge trampolines in their garden, who sit out the front smoking pot who have barbecues. They need banning/taking off sale. Not just the disposable ones, ALL of them.

If you have a cooker/an oven you don't need a pissing barbecue!

They need consigning to the history books. Awful things that have no place in society now. It's always people with big inflatables and huge trampolines in their garden, who sit out the front smoking pot who have barbecues. They need banning/taking off sale. Not just the disposable ones, ALL of them.

If you have a cooker/an oven you don't need a pissing barbecue!

They need consigning to the history books. Awful things that have no place in society now. It's always people with big inflatables and huge trampolines in their garden, who sit out the front smoking pot who have barbecues. They need banning/taking off sale. Not just the disposable ones, ALL of them.

If you have a cooker/an oven you don't need a pissing barbecue!

Why is your garden white?

DD4 is going through a bit of a deep sleeping wetting the bed phase, we were busy today so I put 2 sets of her sheets on a long eco wash and stuck them on the line when we got back.

Half an hour later the whole garden is white, crazy amounts of smoke from next door and the worst smell of ligher fluid I've ever encountered.

I'm not sure how I'm going to get the waterproof sheets dry and I'm worried the whole street is about to go up in flames!

It's about recklessness, it's not reckless to cook whilst sober in your kitchen with the tiny chance of something going wrong, it is normal human beahiour and a normal level of risk we take to live out life.

If you put the chip pan on whilst pissed, and killed the family in the flat upstairs, and somehow survived yourself, then I think a custodial sentence would be likely.

Yes a fire could start whilst you’re cooking inside but cooking outside with a flame near dry grass is obviously more of a risk isn’t it. It said any activity, yes it mentioned disposal bbqs, fire pits and a couple of other things as examples but it still means any activity with the risk.

So can any type of cooking if you don't use common sense or you get something wrong.

Perhaps we should all stop bothering to cook because it might cause a fire.

I have a gas barbie which is on the concrete patio. It would be pretty safe as it is well away from dry grass, vegetation or the wooden sheds and fence. The main reason I am not using it at the moment is because of the extreme heat we have been having, meaning that I don't want it making me even hotter and I can't be arsed with it.

Disposable barbies were the ones specifically mentioned in the alert. They are the biggest danger because people tend to put them down directly on the tinder dry grass and then leave them/not douse them properly. That makes total sense and I believe they have been withdrawn from sale.

I thought it was the disposable bbq's?

I thought it was the disposable bbq's?