Denis Lehane: How I won the Battle of the Ragwort

Today I am a sight to behold, with the arms of Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the back of Quasimodo. And the reason why I’m in such a peculiar state has all to do with the job I undertook over the bank holiday weekend.

While you probably enjoyed a weekend with your feet up, I spent my time with a bent back, pulling yellow weeds.

Yes my friends, my weekend was spent dragging empty fertiliser bags into ragwort-laden fields and filling them with the noxious weed.