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  • Mojisola
    Mojisola Posts: 35,571 Forumite
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    catflap11 wrote: »
    I don't want to smoke in my house so that is out.

    And yet you think the neighbour is making a fuss at the smoke going into her child's room?
  • tlc678910
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    Hi, you mention most of the garden is grass so you don't want to stand on it to smoke but you could have a little path put in e.g. slabs or stepping stones and smoke up the garden. If there is a shed or shelter you could store a chair. Might affect different neighbours though.
  • ReadingTim
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    catflap11 wrote: »
    Appreciate all the views, I only have a small area of patio to stand on and the majority of the garden is grass so standing elsewhere isn't an option, also I don't want to smoke in my house so that is out.

    So you don't want cigarette smoke in your own house, but don't care that it ends up in someone else's?

    Double standards there my friend, so I don't think you're going to get much sympathy. Alternatively, actually go down to the end of the garden, as it's clear that you're nowhere near the "good 20 feet away from the window" that you initially claimed.
  • ReadingTim
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    catflap11 wrote: »
    Not at all, I just don't particularly want to stand on wet grass in my bare feet.

    You've heard of shoes haven't you?
  • catflap11
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    I genuinely think its a lot of fuss about nothing but it seems I am in minority. The only reason I asked was i was taken aback by her demand we stop as I've never encountered this before. Thanks all :)
  • xylophone
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    I just don't particularly want to stand on wet grass in my bare feet.

    Keep a pair of garden clogs on the patio? You just slip them on when you go into the garden.....
  • can't afford shoes given the price of cigarettes these days?
  • Rosemary7391
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    It's just one of those things that bugs people. It bugs me (downstairs neighbour smokes in their flat). I can see why they said something if it's affecting their daughter. If the price of avoiding the problem is putting some shoes on I think that's a good course to take - it's not worth fighting over!
  • Smodlet
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    As all the above. You can't be bothered to go to the infinitesimally small inconvenience of actually putting shoes on and walking a few paces but expect your neighbours to be fine with you making their house reek and potentially giving them lung cancer. On top of that, you don't want your own house to smell of your fags but have no problem inflicting it on someone else... And they are being "unreasonable"? Give me strength.
  • EmmyLou30
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    Personally me and my other half are very sensitive to the slightest whiff of fag smoke and it makes us cough. We have neighbours who smoke just outside on the patio as it's a rental (and at our previous house we had the same but they were owners who just didn't want to smoke in the house). We end up running round the house in summer shutting all the windows on that side of the house, then trying in vain to get the smoke back out the house later. Why should we have to?! If it was one fag that might be equal to the annoyance of a BBQ but smokers have multiple fags all through the day and evening so it really is a problem that drives us mad.


    We've never said anything (although repeatedly loudly shutting windows every time they spark up would be a clear message to anyone who actually cared) as we know we've no powers to make them stop. I have always thought do it in your house if you love the smell so much, or go for a walk in a large field away from people! Or at least at the bottom of the garden at the furthest point from all the neighbours.


    Stepping stones across the lawn seems a good idea to enable that in winter.
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