To think setting a fire in your backyard on a summer day is really antisocial?

[CailinDana]

The neighbours whose garden backs onto ours have just started a bonfire. As a result my house stinks of smoke and I can't hang out my washing. I'm pretty pissed off.

Is this an unusual thing or something to be expected with neighbours? I've never had it happen before.

cailin your not wrong there lol

It is only unreasonable if they are doing it every week.
Once in a while with non toxic garden waste is fine.

I have a shredder for most trimmings to make mulch for the garden but there is still the odd thing that needs burning. Pine trimmings and seeded weeds are no good for composting so will be burnt.
I also have a chimnea which i keep all the larger branch cuttings for.

Valium I honestly wouldn't mind if they started the fire after 7, at least the washing would be in at that stage and there would still be plenty of light for them to work with. In my book starting a fire at 2 in the afternoon is just inconsiderate.

No - we don't have green waste bins.
However, my dc sometimes make a fire, not because we need to get rid of stuff, but because they are practising their fire lighting skills. They do wait until after tea to do it, and we'd always check there's no washing out nearby, but obviously can't predict that somebody might have been going to do something in their garden. It's just part of living with neighbours - as long as no single household is constantly annoying everyone else, I just let people get on with their lives and expect them to let me get on with mine.

I completely agree OP.

DO you feel the same about BBQ's though? Lots of people have them round here, there's a chap over the road from us and he honestly grills at every available opportunity, most days when it is dry. Ds and me act like the Bisto kids when he lights up

I would find it annoying because DS would then not be able to play out in the garden due his asthma. I wouldn't complain unless they were doing it all the time, we'd go to the park instead.

actually OP i agree with you. Doing it on the first/second (depending where you are) sunny day in WEEKS is pretty off tbh. If my neighbour had been doing it yesterday it wold have been the only sunny day I have been around for, for a YEAR!

Pretty sad that its the first thing they do when it is sunny.

My ex-neighbours used to regularly have little bonfires to burn their post. They did this at any time of the day or night they saw fit. It was very bizarre.

I don't mind barbecues so much - next door has them now and again and they're not very smoky at all. This was a very big bonfire with a massive cloud of smoke, so much more annoying.

Sounds like they are burning garden waste which is damp - that causes lots of eye watering smoke.

i dont mind BBq's at all either and usually they only last for an hour or so. thats totally fine by me.
however a fire pit and damp wood.....going all night....
burning a bonfire like calin all day in a cloud of smoke turned her into a prisoner in her own home.

It's not the food or smoke of barbecues, there's something about the fuel which stinks!

I think the occasional bonfire is lovely. And on average, probably less annoying on a week day when lots of people are at work than on a nice evening.

'I think the occasional bonfire is lovely'

what the fuck is lovely about a garden full of carcinogenic smoke and having to do youir washing again?

I think it's good manners to warn neighbours that you intend to have a bonfire... or a party!

What summers day and where is ours?

A one off is fine as long as there is no washing out.

Talkingnonsense - you wouldn't think that if you'd put a load of washing out in the morning to dry and came back to find it covered in soot flecks and reeking of smoke, I'm sure!

Thankfully no more fires so far :)

Give it time.

Ominous rips

We can't set a bonfire until after 6pm - but that doesn't include BBQs.

We don't have a 'garden waste' bin - round here they cost about £40 a year. I compost most of mine, and shred the twigs, but big branches i do burn, i have a big enough garden and always warn the immediate neighbours.

op do you live near me? lol

my neighbour did the same last night, as my kitchen widow was open my whole bungalow filled with white smoke,

sooo bloody rude.