We should bring back the stocks for people who lit bonfires on sunny mornings?

[wonderstuff]

Why do people do it? What’s wrong with driving to the top or getting waste collected? Can’t put my washing out or open my windows.

Obviously the stocks should be placed a bit downwind from their bonfire.

TBH I haven’t seen one for a long time except out in very rural areas, which suggests few people find them necessary nowadays.

We should bring back the stocks for all sorts of minor infringements and some low level criminal acts too. Public shame with the name and photo of the miscreant on local social media feeds!

I agree Op! Really anti-social! And particularly galling on a sunny spring day when you’ve hung washing on the line for the first time, and flung open all of the windows!
Don’t they know how to compost fhs?

So agree - so selfish to have a stinky bonfire on a lovely day with brisk wind & is perfect for drying laundry. I feel for you.

I've spent the last couple of days washing my towels, changing bed, putting my duvet & pillows out in the sunshine. I'm so looking forward to going to bed tonight with my lovely clean fresh bedding smelling of sunshine.

Tell them..
It's selfish and it's wrong.

Well as someone who has had their local
tip closed this year and an allotment owner who has asked their council to supply and been told to try and dispose of their rubbish another way, I think I’ll definitely be having bonfires this year as I don’t want to waste fuel and time travelling to a tip 30 minutes away.

Yes but not in the daytime on a nice day.....
People put washing out.

Apart from washing, it’s not nice to inflict smoke on other people enjoying or working in their gardens.

Oh yes - any time of day to be honest - bonfires are for dank, dark evenings only - not when people have their windows open, their washing out or are trying to enjoy their own gardens. Bonfire smoke is really pervasive, worse than BBQs, and I say that as someone who hates the smell of burnt meat.

I agree about the daytime, but I love the smell of an evening bonfire!

Yes - but should still be on a miserable evening when your neighbours don’t have their windows open. So not in the spring or summer at all!

surely autumn is the traditional time for bonfires?

well you can't have a bonfire in the dark when it's peeing it down

I love a bonfire anytime.

I don't get the countryside obsession with burning stuff in the garden. Except if you're on a super tight budget, why not just pay the annual c£60 for a garden bin from the council?

Burning at the stake is more appropriate surely. After all - we have a bonfire.

But does everyone else who has your bonfire smoke filling their houses, their gardens and their lungs love it? Because I hate to point it out, but that smoke doesn’t stay just in your garden.

No, but you can have it on a cold, miserable evening when people don’t have their windows open, washing out or are enjoying their own gardens.

A halfway decent sized garden can produce far more pruning waste at some times of year than the brown bin will accommodate, tbf. I’m fortunate that we’re quite near the recycling facility and I’ve got an estate car capable of carrying a large dogwood thicket or three in a few runs.

No worries I live in the back of beyond.

The kind of people who are selfish like this won’t change becsue it’s been pointed out to them.

So clearly not relevant to the OP. Why post?

I don't have bonfires, but I don't live in an area where the council sells you garden bins. They refuse to collect any garden waste here.

My garden's pretty big and has long hedges, grass and trees and I manage - no car. I just pile stuff up and it goes in the council bin over time, apart from the piles I leave for the hedgehogs and other critters.

Really! That really sucks - in that case no wonder people burn stuff. If you haven't got a car you've not got much option.