Bonfires in the gardens of surburban bungalows!!!

I feel your wrath.

But I am worried about you going out and leaving windows open, even upstairs ones

Thanks for all your comments and suggestions gransnetters!!! I did ring our local council but there are no longer any by laws regarding bonfires in the garden!!!!! They suggest a friendly chat with aforesaid neighbour-maybe not....... Dont think that he will do it again though!!!

Check with your local council. There are often bye-laws about having bonfires. If this is the case you will be armed for next time this happens.

They sound lovely, Bags - very friendly.
(I was meaning the mouse corpses, not rodents shot by your own good self!)

Happy to wander about with Fred (my beau bow) and my octuplet of arrows (who don't have names yet; I can't tell them apart) and do some target practice in full view of Mr Nuttygrump. Unfortunately I couldn't supply corpses with Fred's help as it's illegal to hunt with bows and arrows in the UK.

Our bows: Captain Benbo, Bilbo, Flo Bow, and Fred. You wouldn't be able to tell which one was mine if I hadn't told you already, would you?

My neighbour ( who has now moved ) had a bonfire in his garden.
At the time I had gone out ( school run I think ) and I had a left a line of washing out as it was a nice summer day.
Upon my return, I had just got into my house when I heard a ring on the doorbell, my neighbour was stood there with a wash basket full of my washing.
He told me he come around to tell me he was going to have a fire in the garden, and as I was out he had climbed over my garden fence took the washing off the line and took it indoors till I came home. How nice of him I thought ...at first that was until I came to sort out the washing and I noticed that among the usual tea towels and shirts was ....... my knickers but not my best frilly sort they were my old (ladies we have all had some like this) off white passion killers . Now this calls for a double . Would I have been less embarrassed if they had been undies from Ann Summers I wonder

gma so your neighbour didn't see you so he thought it OK to start a fire was he trying to smoke you out,I would bill him for the laundry being sent to be done professionally in order to get the smell out (I know it is not needed ) but it would make him think twice before he did it again how un-neighbourly he is !!! and a nice little letter from the enviroment agency would not go amiss either.

jeni I think you should invite Bags to stay for a couple of days with her bow and arrows!
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I reckon he is throwing them back

I'm sure the pigeons made off with the broccoli I was trying to grow.

'scarpers'?

I already do.but they know their way home!
I can't understand why he wants to shoot pigeons. They don't eat anything he grows, ie grass and a few flowers. Gary the Gardner grows veg in my garden and puts up scarpers to get rid of the pigeons.
He's a strange grumpy old man!

Barbecue smells are hard on veggies! I don't like being invited to a barbecue because I feel like an intruder.

I don't see why not! Anyway, I'm sure Bags would send over a few corpses if she were asked nicely.

Well she can hardly kill stuff to throw over can she!!??

Not quite the same, somehow!

Agree about the barbecue smells, absent

jeni get your own back and throw all your snails over the fence

It wasn't charred . Just dead. Shot. Gone . Deceased . And on MY LAWN!

I hate the smell of charred flesh, especially in the summer! And what I presume is cheap meat smells even worse.

And dead squirrels!

No your are not being unreasonable. It is horrid to come home and find that everything in your hose smells of smoke and so too does your freshly done laundry. About the only comparable problem I can think of is a neighbour, who had no idea how to cook, having a barbecue. The odour of burnt sausages and singed chicken lingers and lingers.