I Read About New Regulations on Burning House Coal and Wood.

[smallbrother]

We checked with the relevant council dept and occasional fires are within the law.

Pete.

[Jock McFarlane]

May 12, 2021 12:42:35 GMT tigermoth said:

Don't know what went wrong there but.

Agreeing with jma1009, our next door neighbour bought a barbeque a couple of months ago, as we were out at the time it was lit and had left a small window open our bedroom stank of whatever was used to light it, they sent us round a plate of cooked food, well burnt food, well it was burnt on the outside and still raw on the inside, we put it out for our friendly fox that night and even he would not touch it, do not get me wrong, I have nothing against eating outside as long as it is cooked inside (in both senses of the word) we go to a friends who has a barbeque but always cook our food before taking it with us, why the hell stink the area out just for your own enjoyment and sod everyone else in the area. I can understand if you are camping and cook in the open but not on an estate where you have every mod cons. How do you connect with nature in your back garden, I know the wildlife in our garden vanishes when they smell a fire.

I don't think I could cope with living in your neighbourhood. You have smelly barbequeues and people who encourage verminous foxes by feeding them.
Regards
Jm

[tigermoth]

Hi Jock.

We feed all wildlife, why do you class a fox as vermin, this one looks quite healthy and bushy tailed, unlike the ones you see in city's that have mange etc, we once saw a fox near London City Airport and it looked very worse for wear.

Norman.

[chester]

If you keep free range livestock foxes are vermin

[Boadicea]

May 5, 2021 21:53:09 GMT jma1009 said:

Never have understood why anyone would want to cook sausages etc outside on a fire, when a few paces away will be a kitchen cooker to cook the meat properly and thoroughly. And no nuisance caused to any neighbours using the kitchen cooker instead.

A very good point. You can still connect with the great outdoors - just take the food out there

[Jo]

I can never understand why men are only ever offer to cook if the BBQ is brought out, the rest of the year Maybe a bit more practise and they would be able to cook things over an open flame as well. A few years ago I used to do a good line in Roast dinner on a BBQ: Roast Pork, Roasted Potatoes the works - it is possible to cook anything on a BBQ even cakes


On the vermin front remember as well as attracting the smelly foxes you will get Rats, soon to be big fat rats, who will then breed.

Jo

[JonL]

May 18, 2021 11:07:22 GMT Jo said:

I can never understand why men are only ever offer to cook if the BBQ is brought out, the rest of the year Maybe a bit more practise and they would be able to cook things over an open flame as well. A few years ago I used to do a good line in Roast dinner on a BBQ: Roast Pork, Roasted Potatoes the works - it is possible to cook anything on a BBQ even cakes


On the vermin front remember as well as attracting the smelly foxes you will get Rats, soon to be big fat rats, who will then breed.

Jo

Bit of a generalisation, I do all the cooking in our house as my wife does all the laundry. I can't stand laundry and she can't stand cooking!

[tigermoth]

I also do most of the cooking in our place except for the cakes which she and her friends eat anyway.

Only ever seen one rat around our home and that was 6 years ago, it had set up home under next doors shed, we soon got it evicted and they cannot get under there now, our fox clears all the food we put out as he always gets to it even before the cat (who also would sort out any rats), how do you know that foxes smell?? I have been within 3ft of ours and there was not the slightest smell, the den they live in does smell a bit but you have to get close to the entrance to smell it.

If you keep free range anything it should be fenced properly to keep foxes out or you are not looking after your animals properly, none of the farmers round here have any problems with foxes or badgers. Actually that is a lie, one that kept chickens lost some to a fox one night, after that he put them in, bingo no more problem and he lives about 300yds from the den.

[ettingtonliam]

How do you know that foxes smell? Simple. Find a fox lair and a badger den. Lie down, shove your head into the entrance of a badger den, and it smells nice and clean. Shove your head into the entrance of a fox lair, and it stinks!.

Again, we are getting a bit far removed from regulations concerning the burning of house coal aren't we?

[Jock McFarlane]

May 18, 2021 13:22:10 GMT tigermoth said:

I also do most of the cooking in our place except for the cakes which she and her friends eat anyway.

Only ever seen one rat around our home and that was 6 years ago, it had set up home under next doors shed, we soon got it evicted and they cannot get under there now, our fox clears all the food we put out as he always gets to it even before the cat (who also would sort out any rats), how do you know that foxes smell?? I have been within 3ft of ours and there was not the slightest smell, the den they live in does smell a bit but you have to get close to the entrance to smell it.

If you keep free range anything it should be fenced properly to keep foxes out or you are not looking after your animals properly, none of the farmers round here have any problems with foxes or badgers. Actually that is a lie, one that kept chickens lost some to a fox one night, after that he put them in, bingo no more problem and he lives about 300yds from the den.

How did you evict the rat ? Was it caught in a humane trap then taken out to the countryside and released or was it simply poisoned ? Foxes do smell strongly but they are also crafty enough to keep downwind of you.

I doubt there will ever be agreement on foxes. Many would like to see them eliminated and many feed them so they visit your garden. 

Some arable only farmers like to keep them around so they reduce the rabbit population and preveny crop damage.

[tigermoth]

We lifted the shed it was under and it ran out, where it went know not, we then concreted the base so that rats could not get underneath it again, thank you for your concern for the rats welfare.

When we have any snow I always go out in the garden to see if there are any rat tracks passing through the garden as there is no where in our garden for them to get established or any garden adjoining ours.

We have arable, mixed, and livestock farms in the area oh and a Mushroom farm 3 mile away.

[smallbrother]

I do nearly all the cooking in our house too. Mind, I also do more than my share of eating.

The weather for the Bank Hol weekend looks promising so may connect with nature again.

Pete.

[Midland]

I think this thread started about what you can burn in your woodburner so I will bypass the BBQ chat and get to the point.
Some years ago, at our track whilst doing Sunday passenger hauling, I used to chuck in a few bits of horrible sulphurous coal that my wife stole from the Watercress line whist driving by. I did this about a minute from the off when the passengers were loaded. Two elderly ladies on the platform got the effect and exclaimed, "Oh Myrtle, what a lovely smell just like we used to have then, yes Mavis just as we put the washing out. Things have not changed for the better have they!
Bless them, a little Polish coal brings so much pleasure!!!
Cheers Midland!!