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I was mildly concerned this evening to encounter a large cloud of smoke emerging from the garden at the back of the flat, particularly after the amusing events of a few weeks back when the fire brigade suddenly banged on the door and asked if the flat was on fire after someone somewhere nearby reported seeing smoke billowing from the windows of a flat somewhere in our vague area though evidently with little actual concern if their description was so geographically vague. Today's fire turned out to be the bloke in one of the flats in the block (but which has its own door and technically no access to the garden at the back) in the garden at the back with a little garden-waste-burning device binthingby in which he was burning the bush he had destroyed behind the flat he owns. Bonfires are almost sort of acceptable in rural areas and possibly every now and then around allotments but in the middle of a built-up area it's a fairly anti-social thing to do, especially on a nice warm day when people are extremely likely to have washing hanging out and windows open. He turned out to be planning to install a small shedlet to keep a lawn-mower in and to have Plans for stripping most of the vegetation of the garden to which he technically doesn't have access and was full of complaint for how overgrown the garden was and how he was the only person who seemed to be interested in keeping the garden nice and that he'd been round "every person he could ask" a couple of weeks back to see if they were interested in the garden in any way - all fine except for the fact that I'm one of the three people who does actually give an arse about the state of the garden yet hadn't encountered him asking everyone he possibly could (also omitted was the woman above us who occasionally tends and plants things) and that the only reason it was a bit overgrown this year was because we've been doing other stuff this summer and no-one else has done anything. He might have made a better impression if he hadn't jumped straight in and destroyed an entire bush and started a big fire but he'll now be Bonfire Smell Smoke-Causing Man for some considerable time; as it was I still had to wash all my clothings after standing in the smoke for ten minutes speaking to him.