I thought Health and Safety had been up to their mollycoddling tricks when I noticed that a barrier had been erected around the giant conker that I had caught sight of recently from my passing bus.

So today I got off to investigate, foaming at the mouth at the stupidity of what I presumed to be over-protection of the public.
It turns out that it's an advertisement. So now I'm foaming at the mouth at the desecration of the newly public space in St Andrew's Square by the forces of Mammon who are already well represented in the surrounding buildings.

I will only cease to foam if they take the advertising fence away and leave the lovely conker.