I was the star of a prime-time reality TV show. Cut off from the rest of the world as the team leader of six adventurers, I was only allowed one short walkie-talkie call with my family over the course of the whole series. I couldn’t wait to tell my parents how we had nailed the recent task. In the short walk along the lane we had managed to collect, identify, organise, mount, label and frame 30 different leaf specimens. With that performance we would surely win the series!