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11-09-2007, 12:29 PM
|  | Active Member | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Reading, Berkshire (Uni); nr Southend, Essex (Home)
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| |  Hi from Reading!
Despite being a member for quite a while now I haven't actually posted anything - just read some of the many interesting threads on offer - so I thought it was probably about time to introduce myself here. My name's Simon, and I've recently graduated from Reading Uni with a degree in zoology, which I enjoyed so much I decided I'd stay on and do an MSc in Wildlife management and conservation, which I hope will lead to a career in something interesting, rather than in retail or in an office.
My home is in Essex (although I was born in Kent and lived on Salisbury Plain for a while as a kid), not far from Southend, where I can enjoy jaunts through fields, marshes or woodlands. From the holidays I've had (which have been pretty much exclusively in the UK) I've seen some amazing places, with really different habitats for wildlife - North Norfolk coast, North York Moors, Caledonian forests near Loch Ness, Isle of Cumbrae (Scotland, technically a field trip), Cornwall, Peak District, Mid-Wales amongst others - which I suppose sparked my interest in studying wildlife. I don't profess to know a lot about anything (although my final year project was on ground beetles in woodlands...), but then again I am still young.
I look forward to engaging more actively with you all! 
Regards,
Simon  |
11-09-2007, 12:51 PM
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Welcome to WAB Simon. Congratulations with the degree and good luck with the MSc. This is the best site on the web. I think everybody learns something on WAB young or old.
BWD
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11-09-2007, 12:57 PM
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Hi Simon, I am glad you decided to say hello. Congratulations with your degree and good luck with MSc - sounds interesting and worthwhile. I am sure you will have plenty to contribute, and I look forwards to reading your posts. Welcome .
My goodness BWD, great minds and all that!
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11-09-2007, 01:10 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Hidden in the clover
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Hallo Simon.
From another Zoology graduate (though from The University of Bristol, not Reading I'm afraid!), now living in Reading with my fiancee, and employed in the environmental sector.
Welcome aboard the best site on the web!
Doug. |
11-09-2007, 01:15 PM
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Originally Posted by goosey  Hi Simon, I am glad you decided to say hello. Congratulations with your degree and good luck with MSc - sounds interesting and worthwhile. I am sure you will have plenty to contribute, and I look forwards to reading your posts. Welcome .
My goodness BWD, great minds and all that! | Goosey, Please feel free to steal any of my lines 
BWD
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11-09-2007, 01:24 PM
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Welcome from me simon,hope you enjoy WAB.
Best from mike. |
11-09-2007, 01:29 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Central Scotland
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Hello and welcome Simon |
11-09-2007, 02:18 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: N.Yorkshire
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Big hi from me too! |
11-09-2007, 02:28 PM
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Hi and welcome, You claim not to know much? How did you graduate??
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11-09-2007, 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Meles meles Hi and welcome, You claim not to know much? How did you graduate?? | Sheer fluke Bribery goes a long way... 
Just trying to be modest, having seen your various threads. Although I may be good academically you seem to know a serious amount about things I have only heard in passing! i must say it is exciting to be welcomed so warmly. |
11-09-2007, 02:50 PM
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Originally Posted by ZooSi Sheer fluke Bribery goes a long way...
Just trying to be modest, having seen your various threads. Although I may be good academically you seem to know a serious amount about things I have only heard in passing! i must say it is exciting to be welcomed so warmly. | what now you dont know
and the more you want to know
be sure with wab YOU WILL KNOW hehe
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11-09-2007, 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Meles meles what now you dont know
and the more you want to know
be sure with wab
YOU WILL KNOW hehe | Once I'd worked that out, I liked it |
11-09-2007, 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by ZooSi Sheer fluke Bribery goes a long way...
Just trying to be modest, having seen your various threads. Although I may be good academically you seem to know a serious amount about things I have only heard in passing! i must say it is exciting to be welcomed so warmly. | MODEST i ask??
Thats the quickest any one has put their photo up.
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11-09-2007, 03:17 PM
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Modest about what I know anyways  |
11-09-2007, 03:47 PM
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Hi Simon,
A warm welcome to WAB, this the friendliest, most helpful bunch you could ever want to meet. Looking forward to your posts and more photos.
Carol.
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11-09-2007, 03:56 PM
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Hi there simon
A big warm welcome from me
jen xxx |
11-09-2007, 06:13 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Nr Kidderminster-The loosing Town of Britain In Bloom
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Hi ZooSi Welcome to WAB. Crongrats from me also! |
11-09-2007, 06:43 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Laindon, Basildon, Essex.
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Hey Simon! .... how spooky is that?
I live in Essex (just down the A13/A127 from you), I went to Reading University (although long before you did ) and some of my favourite wildlife and photography places are north Norfolk, Scotland, mid Wales, Yorkshire and the Peak District .... and now we are both WAB members!
Other than that, we probably have nothing in common at all
Enjoy WAB .... like me, I am sure that you will
Richard |
11-09-2007, 09:25 PM
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Hi Simon. |
12-09-2007, 02:45 PM
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Hi Simon, pleased to meet & greet you. Welcome to WAB, it's the best, very friendly & fun too. Well done on getting your degree and good luck with your MSc!
See you on the boards? |
14-09-2007, 11:16 AM
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Definitely |
15-09-2007, 10:30 AM
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Hi ZooSi
Loads of interesting places even in Essex ( don't let on to too many people or they'll all want to see)
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15-09-2007, 12:46 PM
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Hi Simon and a big welcome to WAB. Congrats with your degree, looking forward to your posts and pics. | | |
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