To think it's my bloody house and garden so I'll have a bbq or bonfire if i want too?

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Just as the title suggests really.

We're already confined to our homes for the most part, why are people now trying to control what we can and cannot do in our own gardens?

Need to find as much joy as possible or I'll join all the other near alcoholics that have evolved at this point.

Chuck your grass clippings into the countryside

Don't do that. The world outside your little fiefdom is not a landfill site for all your crap, degradable or not.

BBQ fuel really gets to my chest even though I'm not asthmatic.

I'm not fussed about BBQs but every fucking Friday my next door neighbour has bonfire that lasts the entire fucking day. I hate them.

How many people, all stuck at home will be affected by one bonfire?
I'm on a hill and can see into the quite far distance. People having bonfires affect us from far away. People on our street, mean we have to come inside and shut windows.

COVID is a respitory disease that attacks our breathing apparatus. Our lungs.. People around you will be fighting covid right now, stuck in their bedrooms worried they can't breathe, their only comfort will be a little FRESH air coming in on a hot day.

Other families will be shielding those with copd and children with asthma.

I could never ever be so inward looking and selfish to have a bonfire and cause misery and force people to change their plans for the day, make sick people feel worse, cause parents of those with breathing issues panic for the sake of a shitty bonfire Mrs selfish wants.

BTW, anyone with people burning for several hours can call eh and non emergency police no and if its black smoke, goes on regularly esp so.

Police will probably attend if they are not busy I know because we had people clearing out a house and endlessly burning All sorts, one day I tried 101 and they sent someone round within an hour to have a '' chat ''

The fire was put out.

I only get annoyed by bbq's if I have a line full of Washing and also if my next door neighbour lights his bloody bbq;I have no idea what he uses on it but I've never smelt anything like it elsewhere and it absolutely reeks;the smoke it produces is horrible and it makes your eyes water.

As for bonfires;I have no issues with them as long as it's at a reasonable time when kids aren't likely to be in the garden or washing likely to be on the line.In the evening preferably and as long as the burning is done safely.We had a moronic neighbour who decided to clear their garden,build a huge bonfire,have all their mates round,they were all drinking and they had kids running around and they then lit the bonfire which escalated out of control;set fire to the trees in the garden and resulted in a fire engine turning up 🙄

every fucking Friday my next door neighbour has bonfire that lasts the entire fucking day.

But why? What the hell are they burning?

Personally I don't understand why people have bonfires at all, apart from 5th November.

I've no idea what they are burning StarbucksSmarterSister. They have quite a large garden but so do I but my brown bin copes fine with the waste. They manage to fill two brown bins a fortnight as well. Did I mention that I hate them?

In most cities in Australia unlicensed suburban bonfires have been banned for at least the past 30 years. BBQs are fine though provided they are kept small. Surely in the UK you'd have similar laws?

Are you aware that barbecued meat is the most carcinogenic thing you can put in your body? Did you know that one of the reasons smoking is so carcinogenic is that it contains acrylamide? So do barbecue fumes and so does bonfire smoke. Unfortunately when you burn things in your garden you're sharing the fumes you create with your neighbours. Would you like to be on the receiving end of other people's carcinogens?

How bloody selfish and antisocial can you get? Light a bonfire? Because you want to. Ffs.

Op not been back, no? Just wound it up and let it go.

Don't feed it.

People are using their hosepipes and if my ndn started a bloody bonfire I'd hope mine would reach it

actually there is an interesting point of law I remember reading which could relate to ownership of land beneath your feet & possibly air space above
Fracking - we all think we own the land our houses are on & in other countries that means the land far below your property BUT apparently - as it was discussed in a news article - they can frack underneath your property without your permission because here you don't onw the land beneath just the immediate land on which your house sits (case in point re water/sewers & having to allow access etc but the Fire service have requested people don't have bonfires

There are several bonfire pests in my vicinity. All men. All believe it is their 'right' to make a stinking bonfire out of anything they can find. Unsurprisingly they are the kind of knuckle-dragging neanderthal arseholes who nobody wants to argue with.

I have never in my whole life seen anyone have a bonfire in their garden, yet I see it all the time on Mumsnet!!

Any post that states ''I'', ''ME'' and ''MY'' are bloody automatically being very unreasonable !

We ALL need to have a lot more tolerance, patience and understanding if we're going to come out of this global crisis without losing our bloody humanity FFS !

What about the elderly, single parents, disabled people, people with no jobs, no food or no way of heating their houses. What about the people who are homeless, the refugees in camps..........the list of people who are A LOT WORSE OFF THAN MANY OF US is almost endless................and yet..............the OP thinks ''oh, poor me ! Sod everyone else, I'M going to do what I want ,whenever I want, so F**K YOU !!

People like that are always the first to the lifeboats (figuratively ), shoving the weaker ones overboard aren't they ??

Yes you carry on with your bonfires, don’t worry about the asthmatics who are then unable to open the windows on the hot days as they're unable to breathe, you just carry on, long as you’re happy

Well, looking at the neighbours' yards while out walking, it looks like three of us in a row are planning on having a barbie. We all seem to do it with maximum consideration given to not annoying our neighbours, no-one has ever complained, so I think we're clear to have one.

I get that it's frustrating but by doing a bonfire, you're controlling other people's enjoyments of their gardens. No one wants to sit out and have plumes of smoke billowing into their faces. A one off BBQ fine, but a bonfire? Really?

DONT Chuck your grass clippings in the countryside.

If you have certain trees/shrubs in your garden which drop bits on the grass, and then you cut the grass and check it in the countryside- an animal might eat it.
The wrong shrub/tree bits = dead cows & sheep.
FFS.

Or maybe a BBQ is as bad to others!

As far as I can gather from MN, literally by breathing, you can piss someone off over here. So I'm going to follow all the actual stipulated guidelines for behaving responsibly and considerately, forgo joining the sack cloth and ashes brigade, and try to live as good a life as we can under lockdown while doing what we can to minimise negative impact to others.

I don’t think not having a bonfire is akin to insisting someone adopts a sackcloth and ashes lifestyle?! They are not that much fun. Read a book or watch a film instead

I'm talking BBQ, not bonfire.