"Please Do Not Walk on the Grass"

You see signs that say that everywhere around the university. So basically you can't walk on the grass anywhere on campus. But once you become a fellow of the university, then you have permission. There's one lawn in Pembroke College called "Bowling Green Lawn" I believe that has sloped edges and the main part of it is flat. Students are actually allowed to sit on the sloped edge, but only fellows can go into the main part, and it's on that lawn that they play this game called "bowls" which involves rolling a black ball across the lawn to try to get it as close as possible to a white ball on the other side. It's very much an old-people sport (sport sounds a little too active).
At any rate, it's weird not to cut across the grass or be able to go and have picnics. There are some (very specific) times however when you can go on the grass, like specified hours when you're allowed to go onto a specific lawn and play croquet.
Or, like two nights ago, when before the Formal Hall, we got to go onto the Back Lawn of King's College and have our drinks there:

So you can imagine how exciting it was to be able to go on the lawn...or maybe you can't quite imagine how exciting it was. But, boy, let me tell you, it was exciting!