I can smell burning - should I do anything?

[LaurieFairyCake]

I can smell it outside in the garden but I can't see anything - there are 8 foot high walls and commercial properties including workshops to the rear of me

It's low level burning, a bit like as if a wood fire had just started - there is NO smoke and no noise (as if someone else had noticed)

I wouldn't even ask this question but I'm in the tinderbox that is SE London right now

To be clear - there is a faint smell of woodsmoke but there is NOTHING to see

Burn smells can carry a long long way. When the Saddleworth Moors were blazing a few years ago due to wildfires we could smell it apx10 miles away on our doorstep.

Ooh tricky. Obvious question but can anyone else smell it? Can you get a better view from anywhere? I might be tempted to call the non emergency number to be on the safe side

This.

I wakened Dh up and he can't smell it - but he has zero sense of smell

We're off to walk round the block to see if there's an obvious cause

When there was a fire next door it was the crackling sound that alerted me rather than smell.

We have heath fires a few miles away currently, The house is intermittently smelling dreadfully of smoke. It3varying from being so strong I'm seriously checking everything in the house, and so you can just catch the smell if you think about it.

If your husband can't smell it (due to a genuine lack of smell) could you ask a neighbour if they can smell it?

It could be a fire somewhere, or it could health related?

This is my life most nights. Usually in the middle of the night and I have to walk around the entire house checking stuff and then go into the garden. I think smoke does carry a long way as I've not found anything yet and it's always coming from outside, presumably from IDIOTS who have chimneas etc.