Hundreds of poinsettias - We are not allowed to put anything on our walls and so I'm challenged on what I can do to decorate the suite. I am dressing up our little pseudo-Christmas tree and did find a rather sad looking poinsettia and continue to fold paper stars for the windows, but it all seems rather lame (quoting Felix) when I see the hotel starting to move into Christmas mode.

Today a 12 foot high poinsettia 'tree' appeared in the front entrance. It took 4-5 hours to put up.  I am amazed - although poinsettias need heat to turn the leaves red they withstand quite cold temperatures (it goes down to 3 or 4 degrees centigrade over night at the coldest).  The lovely man in the top photo (to prove I didn't exaggerate the size of the 'tree') is one of our security/screening men.  He will get a mention in the Bollywood entry!

I am continually delighted by the creativity of the flower wallah in the hotel.  ALL poinsettias at this time of year look rather leggy and yet the tree arrangement and the hessian and raffia wrapping do a wonderful job obscuring this and putting the focus on the festive colors.

Perhaps I can drape some tinsel over the flat screen TVs!!  I just can't compete with the wonderful flower man.