Volleyball

OK so I’m finally updated my volleyball club’s website with details of the fixtures that we have this season. This post will hopefully just allow me a quick way of updating the website using WordPress on my iPhone so I can add scores quickly on the night.

Basically what happens is a PHP script just rips the table below and places it within a webpage.

Fixtures

Date	Warm-up	Opposition	Where	Score
Fri 09 Oct’09	8:00pm	PVC	Nuffield Sports Centre Wyggeston Drive Gate 1 Off University Road Leicester LE1 7RJ	We won 3-0 (25-18, 25-15, 25-10)
Mon 09 Nov’09	7:30pm	Loughborough University	Bablake School	We won 3-0 (25-10, 25-8, 25-19)
Mon 23 Nov’09	7:30pm	Nuneaton	Bablake School	-
Tues 01 Dec’09	8:00pm	Tamworth	Wilnecote High School Tinkers Green Road, Wilnecote, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B77 5LF	-
Mon 07 Dec’09	7:30pm	QEWGS	Nuffield Sports Centre Wyggeston Drive Gate 1 Off University Road Leicester LE1 7RJ	-
Mon 14 Dec’09	7:30pm	Loughborough Lions	Bablake School
Mon 18 Jan’10	7:30pm	PVC	Bablake School	-
Sat 23 Jan’10	2.00pm	Loughborough Lions	Limehurst High School Bridge St Loughborough Leicestershire, LE11 1NH	-
Mon 01 Feb’10	7:30pm	QEWGS	Bablake School	-
Mon 15 Feb’10	8:15pm	Loughborough University	Loughborough University New Sports Hall Leicestershire, LE11 3TU	-
Mon 08 Mar’10	7:30pm	Tamworth	Bablake School	-
Sat 21 Mar’10	6:00pm	Nuneaton	George Eliot School Raveloe Drive Nuneaton CV11 4QP	-

Take that Lufbra

I play for a Coventry based volleyball team in the Leicestershire Leagues. We’re not very good so it’s extremely satisfying when we win. Tonight we beat a team from Loughborough University (supposedly the UK’s premier university for sports). After the match I worked out the average age of our team to be 42 – I’m the second youngest. I guess it goes to show the benefits of organising games in exam periods when their best players aren’t available. The rest of the post is just to remind me of the remaining fixtures for the season and the results we’ve had so far.

Fixtures

Next season’s fixtures will appear here when they are published

Results

Sunday, 16-Nov – Melton Away – we lost 3-0 (25-22, 26-24, 25-23)

Monday, 01-Dec – Nuneaton Home – we won 3-0 (25-14, 25-8, 25-21)

Monday, 26-Jan – Loughborough Uni Home – we won 2-1 (25-17, 16-25, 25-14)

Monday, 23-Feb WQEI Home – we won 3-0 (25-18, 25-10, 25-16)

Monday, 02-Feb WQEI Away – we won 2-1 (22-25, 25-9, 25-19)

Sunday, 08-Mar – Nuneaton Away – we won 3-0 (25-12, 25-13, 25-13)

Thursday, 19-Mar – Semi-Final – Tamworth Away – we lost 2-1 (sorry too devastated to remember the score)

BUILA at UEL

Today was the BUILA AGM. BUILA is which is the association for international office staff from UK universities. I’m not an international officer but I obviously need to keep on top of and international trends so I like to stay in touch with this organisation.

The AGM was held at the University of East London (UEL) which has an amazingly modern campus right on the river close to City Airport.  It’s so different from the institution I work at. I think that the only things that might be common are the three shared words in their titles and the fact that they are located in the same city. I’m simply not used to having rooms called the hot hatch and the fab pad with sleek computers and bright orange furniture.

I came home from London tonight to play volleyball. We won 3-0 by the way – hurrah! However it’s back to the East End of London tomorrow for the EdUKP conference. I imagine that most of the talk this year will be related to PBS (the points based system being introduced by the UK Border Agency) which doesn’t interest me in the slightest as our students don’t need visas. The other hot topic will be crisis management, especially after the events of the past week in Bangkok and Mumbai. I have a few Facebook friends whose statuses have given an interesting take on the situation in Bangkok while a colleague of mine is currently out in Mumbai.