The Japanese Embassy is erecting a businesslike wire mesh fence all around its perimeter and taking in part of the pavement on the street that runs off Empire Circuit.
At least 9 or 10 gaijin toiling all morning AND the lovely old cotoneaster hedge (well, I liked it) is being cut down and fed, in sections, into the pulveriser. The new fence may well keep out the odd demonstrator, but it also exposes the buildings which were, up to new, discreetly sited behind the thick tall hedges.