{Five minutes earlier…} One of these guys kicks the ball toward the road on the left. I happened to be walking down the footpath at the time. The ball comes toward my feet. I pick the ball up, and throw it back in a graceful arc.

Which comes to an abrupt halt when the ball collides with the branches of one of the trees that you can see there, bounces off it and heads back toward the roadway.

I therefore have to scamper after the ball to prevent it from going onto the road. My second attempt to throw the ball back, rather less elegant after my confidence has been rattled by my earlier attempt nonetheless gets the ball back in play.

It seemed an appropriate subject for my PAD in the circumstances.