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The first throw drifted a little high and landed, with what can only be described as remarkable precision, directly on a Senior Advocate. Miraculously, he wasn't hurt and, ever the good sport, picked up the ball and lobbed it back. His return throw, powered by decades of seniority and noticeably fewer decades of hand-eye coordination, veered off and landed on... another Senior Advocate. Small lawn. Suspiciously large odds.
This one was not amused. Visibly wounded by the sheer audacity of junior advocates enjoying themselves on DHC's grass, he snatched up the ball and launched it in fury, in principle, who's to say at one of my friends, who ducked just in time. The ball carried on and found yet another advocate.
Senior. Obviously.
By now a small crowd had gathered, drawn by the commotion and, one assumes, by nothing better to bill for at that hour. As everyone demanded to know what on earth was going on, it emerged that almost the entire crowd shared the same designation. A gathering convened to complain about a ball game had, without anyone quite intending it, turned into something resembling a Full Court reference.
They're still deciding what to do about us. Personally, I think the real agenda item should be how anyone is expected to stand on that lawn without hitting a Senior Advocate.