Hunters Moon

Broadway have banned all bbq’s and the railway have suspended all steam engines substituting diesel locos.  With all the farmland and wildlife reserves I believe it’s the only sensible precaution

I thinks it is all sites that bbq's have been banned not just Hunter's Moon from what a friend has emailed to me as they are on a club site at present. As mentioned contact head office as quoted above.

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We had a brief around a week ago that all charcoal  bbq's are to be banned until further notice. We were also to conduct an additional (already do one every 6 months) site specific fire risk assessment which would decide what if any extra measures were needed. It's entirely up to the site staff if they allow any outside actions that involve a naked flame. Better to be safe than sorry, a missed bbq isn't going to ruin anyone's holiday. We had a near miss last weekend, there was a gorse fire less than a mile away and the breeze was our way. Thankfully the as usual our brilliant fire service here controlled it in a couple of hours.

JK

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Smoking is currently banned on our golf course. Not sure it has ruined anybody’s round though.

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Without knowing that the hot weather was coming, last year I bought an electric outdoor cooking device from Aldi. It consists of a cast plate on top of a heating element.  Works great without a flame - and with very little burning. Has a stand and side tables for stuff, just like a flaming barbecue.

Been lots of rain these past 3 days  Stand easy.

I've got to agree with this - particularly the second paragraph; it is exactly what I thought when I read the OP; but I wasn't brave enough to say so, so I'll stand full square behind Corners. I honestly could not get my head round how not being able to have BBQs would "ruin" a holiday. 

I like BBQs for eating; I love that charred taste, especially if it is decent meat and not cheap beef burgers. But I hate them on sites and never do them myself. I hate that I have to close all my windows, even in stifling weather, to avoid my whole van stinking of BBQ smoke for the next 24 hours. One has to tolerate them, but anything that curbs their use is good news to me. That's heresy for some, I know.   

On a more serious front, given the publicity encouraging the need for all of us to be ultra careful in these drought ridden times, it seems to make sense to me to ban any form of BBQ.

Interestingly it's been reported that very dry land (Dorset etc)  which has had rain recently is back to severe dryness levels one hour after rainfall.