I'm getting a bit wound up as the last couple of times I've been to someone else's garden, or invited friends or family to mine, a neighbour has decided to burn garden waste and there's been so much smoke! It's always been the middle of the day, and due to COVID rules meaning we can't go inside each others' homes, I've felt no choice but to breathe it in! It's happened three times in the past week.
I think it's been wood and leaves being burnt each time, rather than plastic etc, but wood smoke is toxic enough and burning leaves creates a lot of smoke!
I should add that I'm 7 months pregnant so particularly keen not to be inhaling anything bad for me/ baby - and have heard people say that wood smoke is as damaging as cigarette smoke in terms of passing to the baby.
Is anyone else finding this/ anyone else think people should be more mindful of the fact that at the moment others don't have the (legal) option of heading inside away from the smoke? Also, I'm obviously not expecting friends' neighbours to do anything differently due to me being pregnant, though I admit I'm a bit peeved that the thought hasn't occurred to my own neighbours that I might want to avoid inhaling smoke.
So - AIBU to be expecting people to be more thoughtful or should I just be locking myself inside if I'm bothered by these things?!