A room...

...with not much of a view.

This is the view from my window at work...

...pretty dismal and not very inspiring. Would you believe just two years ago it looked like this...

 ...Stratford was getting ready for the Olympics and everywhere was being made ready for the event...

...lawns were nicely cut and flower beds planted to make pleasant areas throughout the town. All so very different to what can be seen at the moment...

 ...noise, dirt & rubble...

...and not a flower bed or tree to be seen.

As the outside world was looking so horrid, I put some decorations up in the office to cheer things up a bit...

 ...plenty of George crosses everywhere...

 ...not only in flag form but some inflatable hands too and a flower pot...

...sporting a few more flags.

Yesterday I added some Brazil bunting and a length of multi-flag bunting but I haven't had a chance to take more photos - will try and get some pics tomorrow.

It certainly makes things a bit more cheerful and my team love it. We are the only section that has gone all out to decorate for the World Cup (although there has been a rather large 3 lions flag appear on another section this week).

Folk from elsewhere in the office say how great it looks but nobody else has been bothered to do anything similar. How boring...

It didn't take long to do. It didn't cost much as we already had some of the stuff and most of what has been added has come from £ and 99p Stores. Best of all, it brightens the place up and has created a more cheerful mood amongst my team. Resulting in better motivation and (here comes the buzz words) increased staff engagement.

I'm wondering what I can do when this lot has to come down at the end of the World Cup...what can I decorate our section with...Christmas seems rather a long way off..................................................