Simon Branford

Simon I am a thirty-something researcher in the Evolutionary Biology Group, which is in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Reading.

I am the website coordinator for Sirens, which is a conference, part scholarly examination and part networking retreat, dedicated to women in fantasy literature. Sirens is organised by Narrate Conferences.

I like to spend time running, orienteering, and reading.

This blog is powered by WordPress, using a theme that I designed myself. The owls-count.net domain is hosted by Dynamiconomy.

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Orienteering March 2013

Saturday 6th April 2013 | Orienteering, Races | No Comments

In March I went orienteering three times. The map images link to a copy of the course with my route taken from my GPS. Broadstone and Hillbourne The final race of the Wessex Night League. I was never in contention in the league, as this was only my second race, so I decided early on to go for all the controls even if this meant I would be back late. I lost a couple of … [Read the rest]

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