When not to have a fire, You live and learn. :D

Sometimes in life you have to show that you are the bigger man and today proved it.

For the past couple of days, today excluded I have been having several fires to clear the remaining waste on my bit of land.

Who ever lived in my house before me was a builder and they had left enough items to build a house many time over under the surface of the mud I was digging up.

I invested in a tiller, this is a small machine just like a rotavator that turns the soil over, it is self driven just by pulling on a handle.

the 4 blades attached make the job so much easier than using a fork to turn the soil over, and the more times you go over the soil the finer it becomes.

The idea behind rotervating the land is to seed some of it so the kids have somewhere to play, I want to get a slide, swing and maybe even a climbing frame for them, but the land has to be cleared first before the grass is even added to the soil.

Hard at work and every turn of the blades brought something up from under, whether it be a brick, light casing or plaster it was just never ending.

I started to rake the waste up and after several hours at it I had some huge amounts that needed a new home, the problem was there was just too much of it.

I decided what ever could be burned needed burning and lit my fire and started to put things on it that I knew was going to burn.

The fire was going nice and I put some fresh weeds on it just to get rid of them so that I didn't have to deal with them another day, but the unthinkable happened.

The wind changed.

So instead of the smoke blowing into the field across from my house, the smoke decided to go towards the houses on my road, and this wasn't a small amount of smoke either.

But like a good neighbour I decided to add more flammable items to it to get rid, this turned out to be a problem as the smoke got to the point where I couldn't even see my house that was 30 meters from me. oops.

Before I knew it a neighbour came out, walked up to me and asked me how long the fire was going to go on for.

Little did I know it, him and his wife had been sat in their garden drinking and the smoke had waved over there fence and into their house.

He was so pissed off, red faced and angry are the only words I could describe as his abrupt attitude was known from his tone of his voice.

I apologised, what else could I do? I told him the fire would be out soon as there was no more to burn, and he went back to his house still as pissed off as he was when he came out.

I raked the ground around the not so big fire to help it go out, the last thing I wanted to do is piss someone off , then I made my way into the house.

I was a little upset that he was so angry with me so I decided to apologize the next time I saw him.

Earlier today, I saw him and called across, I walked over to him and explained why I had the fire and I was sorry for the wind going in his garden.

He took my apology and even shock my hand as I left to go home, I felt better about the situation as the last thing I have ever wanted to do is piss anyone off where I live as you never know when you will need them in the future.

Today, I didn't have another fire due to the wind blowing the same as yesterday, but I do have some items that need to be burned.

I have also gone around the border with my hoe and freed some of the privets from waste that has been strangling the life out of them for many years, doing this has also brought more waste to be burned too, the only problem I have is I don't want to have another fire and upset anyone again, I will have to think about what I am doing.

@artonmysleeve