I used to love a good garden bonfire. I had a metal mesh "brazier" and I used to burn all the woody clippings and prunings that I couldn't compost. I used to get little bits of wood 6" square from our garage to get the fire going - and have my husband running out shouting, "Don't burn that, I'm saving it -
it'll come in," and grabbing them back. He was like that.
This was all before the days of the Council Green Bin, where all my woody rubbish goes these days, and there were ways of going about it. I never lit a fire during the day and I always warned my neighbours if I was planning a fire. I also never lit one if it was very windy - I didn't want ash on my own window-sills, let alone the neighbours'.
I don't know why people would want to burn things now. There's so much emphasis on recycling nowadays I'd feel positively guilty if I burned anything at all.
