Buttercups and daisies is where my knowledge of nature ends

've long agreed with the sentiment shared by Reg Holdsworth, Coronation Street's flamboyantly bespectacled supermarket manager from the '90s, that knowledge is power.

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While I've never had an ambition to run my own branch of Bettabuy, I'm firmly of the belief that being curious about the world around you means that life is never, ever boring. Granted, having the ability to retain useless snippets of trivia for decades can be a little tedious for my nearest and dearest, especially, I'm told, when I interrupt Mrs Tapp's favourite programmes to inform her that a particular actor also appeared in Bergerac in 1985.