Garden fire

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So after 3 days of rain we have nice day followed by warm evening. Then as soon as it gets dark the neighbours behind us light the biggest bloody bonfire right at the bottom of their garden but only about 10 feet from our house. We had the windows open a bit so the whole house stank. My husband wanted to turn the garden hose on it but I persuaded him not to. AIBU to get so steamed up? It was after dark and it's not illegal.

YABU. They clearly had stuff they needed to burn, waited for an appropriate time, and did it. It's a pain but doesn't take much effort to close a few windows and stick a fan on if you're hot.

YABU. I second what kally said.

YABU

YABU how would they get it to burn in the rain?

WOW!
I think you gave every right to be annoyed. Bonfires (if they need to be lit at all) can be lit in the evening when windows are shut and people have brought their washing in. It's incinsiderate to expect neighbours to be subjected to smoke fuelled gardens.
In some areas lighting garden fires is against the law - for a reason.
Most councils provide garden waste bins to remove waste, and all have waste dumps to put it.
Burning it to the annoyance of your neighbours is as crass as it is unnecessary.

inconsiderate - oops

Yabu to get so annoyed by it, this is what people do in the summer.

Yanbu. At all.

People need to be extremely considerate at the time they smoke their neighbours out.

It was lit in the evening.
YABU. If the neighbours are that close it would have been polite for them to have mentioned they were planning a fire. There are bylaws restricting fires in some areas but I think everyone is permitted 2 a year, or something peculiar like that!
Councils charging for garden refuse collection will make things worse.

YANBU

They should have told you. Can you ask them politely to do so in future?

Ten feet from your house is also dangerous with a big fire - do they have the means to control it? I would be asking your local council for advice. It's not as if they couldn't have burnt stuff gradually over the long dry days earlier. Unless of course you're in Ireland which seems to have had regular rainfall!

However, if they were burning tyres/plastic/noxious substances then they should be reported. Bad enough in the countryside, awful and unhealthy in built up areas..

Bonfires aren't very neighbourly, hopefully a one off?

YANBU! It's really thoughtless of them to inflict all that smoke on their neighbours! One of the first decent weather days of summer and you've had to shut all your windows and now your house stinks of smoke.

People who do this really fuck me off. So bloody selfish.

......warning you so you could have closed your windows would have been the minimum they could have done, but it's crass behaviour anyway.
Ten feet from your home.............the window cleaner will have a great job round your way.......

Try living next to my neighbours, they have a wood burner they use ever evening and smoke weed multiple times a day😓

You're not being unreasonable. It's standard etiquette to inform your neighbours when you plan on having a bonfire or fireworks. I would be furious if the neighbours let off a bonfire while I was drying clothes or had my window open.