Malleable Musings

September 17, 2009

Volleyball

Filed under: Volleyball — Brendan @ 10:48 pm

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
-

January 26, 2009

Take that Lufbra

Filed under: Volleyball — Brendan @ 11:19 pm

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)

December 1, 2008

BUILA at UEL

Filed under: Conferences, International Student Recruitment, Volleyball — Tags: , , — Brendan @ 5:05 pm

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.

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