"I answered Steve's call to act as results co-ordinator for the SENiLe series. I moved South in the late 80s with work and already had a keen interest in night orienteering. I did not take much interest in the first couple of years, weekends being spent travelling North to visit relatives and friends, travelling orienteering or decorating! However I did start to take part in the SENiLe events the previous season and volunteered to take over from Steve."

"The fixtures secretaries are usually very good and scheduling events well in advance. Some seasons there has been a little persuasion needed to get events in place, not always successfully. The results are produced using a spreadsheet; it's a little bit manual but means that there is no complex database to manage. For the last 2 seasons I have been using email to distribute comments and results during the season, and now that this website is created, will use both the web and email to communicate fixtures, results and league positions."

"It's been fairly uneventful whilst I have been compiling the results each season. The popularity of night orienteering appears to be declining slowly, and those events that are being held are focussing to the South and West of London. Some small changes have been made to the format to try to make it easier to stage a SENiLe event but perhaps more radical change is needed. With only 4 fixtures planned for the 2001-2 season it may be that the time for change is approaching. Comments from night orienteers are always welcome."

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