But when lighting a campfire would be inconvenient or unwise, there's the Indoor Flameless Marshmallow Roaster by Hammacher Schlemmer.
Soon it will be bushfire season in this part of Victoria, and lighting a campfire will not be possible.
The individual may strike a match, for example, to light a campfire but then will hold the match until it burns his fingers.
On Monday, the authorities charged a homeless man with arson for lighting a campfire and leaving it unattended, igniting a blaze in southwest Austin that destroyed six homes.
Connecticut, perhaps the only state where lighting a campfire is illegal, has become a land of unhappy campers and downright dyspeptic campground owners.
But the divestment campaign is not arguing for an end of all fossil fuel use starting tomorrow, with everyone heading back to caves to light a campfire.
We all know that kindling ignites faster than logs, though, so this is not only puzzling to anyone who's ever tried to light a campfire; it's also, Finney said, "absolutely contrary to the models," most of which assume that radiation from a wildfire lights the flammable materials at the fire's leading edge.
Merton's other exploits included climbing on to the Morden Hall Road roundabout and lighting a campfire in the shrubbery – and, drunk on cider, jumping on to the line at South Wimbledon tube station and walking into the tunnel, narrowly avoiding the live wire.
Sometimes we wouldn't sleep, we'd just light a campfire and stare at the stars and the balloons," Gilmar Oliveira, a member of the group, recalled.
