Dear Lyn, Ragwort is very toxic to livestock and anyone with it on their land who has horses and other herbivores should take every step to remove it. The creatures will ignore it when it is living but when it it dead they will eat it with mostly fatal consequences. It is a slow lingering death and ...

Dear All, A word of warning, if you are planning to microwave squash (which BTW they do very well) it is VERY IMPORTANT that you pierce the squash right through to the hollow in the middle. My neighbour forgot one day and blew the door off the microwave when the squash exploded. Michael Caine would ...