An article on the BBC local news this evening showed nursery children out in a forest clearing. They were well wrapped up against the cold; they wore wellies to enable them to jump about in the mud (which they absolutely loved); they fell down on mud too; they were shown small insects at close quarters and even sawed small pieces off logs. They were having the whale of a time, and it is believed that these kind of experiences help build confidence.
All well and good .................. BUT the good being done was totally destroyed by an adult lighting a fire "because it was cold". Are they absolutely ignorant of the dangers of the bonfire smoke that continuously puthered out; the harm being caused to the childrens' tiny lungs; the carcinogenic emissions from wood smoke which contains 350 times as much cancer causing benzopyrenes as cigarette smoke?
Wood smoke has been found to be extremely polluting. I am horrified!