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Smoking in garden
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I like a nice BBQ. I will do all I can to not smoke my neighbours out. But as I have them either side, I am limited.
But.....................I will continue to enjoy my garden and they will have to except a little smoke, as I have to their habits.
Limiting something is one thing, being told to stop.............is another.0 -
I like a nice BBQ. I will do all I can to not smoke my neighbours out. But as I have them either side, I am limited.
But.....................I will continue to enjoy my garden and they will have to except a little smoke, as I have to their habits.
Limiting something is one thing, being told to stop.............is another.
A barbecue is usually about once a year in this country if we’re lucky!
Smoking is daily, and she isn’t being asked to stop just to move a few feet.0 -
Maybe the child is asthmatic? I absolutely hate the smell of cigarette smoke {and my father smoked for a long time when I was a kid causing me to have a rather weak chest} and can smell it from a long way off. It sets me off coughing and wheezing for a good hour or so. I can fully understand why the mother wishes her daughter to not have to smell your smoke. I haven't read all eight pages) but a little understanding wouldn't hurt.“Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex
Wonderfully unfathomable, natural world” Tim Minchin0 -
Red-Squirrel wrote: »A barbecue is usually about once a year in this country if we’re lucky!
Smoking is daily, and she isn’t being asked to stop just to move a few feet.
Not in my home, must have had about 2 dozen this year alone.0 -
Red-Squirrel wrote: »A barbecue is usually about once a year in this country if we’re lucky!
Smoking is daily, and she isn’t being asked to stop just to move a few feet.
"asked us not to smoke in the garden as it was drifting up and "filling her daughters bedroom with smoke".
The OP was asked to stop not move. And she/he was already 20 feet from the window!0 -
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Red-Squirrel wrote: »24 barbecues in just a few months? I know its been unusually warm and dry this summer, but I think you have a problem!
Maybe get your cholesterol checked?
Youre in megalomaniac territory and you think someone who likes BBQ's has a problem?0 -
I think I'm sympathetic to the OP here. If OP was going out and chuffing their way through 20 B&H each every night, generating industrial amounts of fag smoke along the way, that's probably a bit unreasonable. Or if the OP was standing directly outside/under the window in question. Or if we're on about very closely adjoining properties, like the yards at the back of row of terraced houses.
But that's not what's happening here. The OP is standing in their back garden of their detached house and having a smoke, as is their legal right so to do.
The neighbour can just close the window for half an hour if they're that bothered. Or wind their neck in. Or move.
And if neighbour gets snarky about it, ask them to never drive a car or have a barbeque or have a cat or do anything at all that impinges on OP in any way, shape or form.
"Nice overhanging tree you've got their, neighbour! Shame if someone were to trim the everloving snot out of it, returning the trimmings to you as per the law, eh?"0 -
Red-Squirrel wrote: »24 barbecues in just a few months? I know its been unusually warm and dry this summer, but I think you have a problem!
Maybe get your cholesterol checked?
Maybe the problem is that you think everyone just eats cheap burgers and sausages like your good self. You really should get out more. BBQs grill you know?? lol0 -
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