Sacha wrote:

I wish! Work dictates I'm afraid so I don't get free till the
weekend.

We'll be here if you have time to drop in for lunch or a cream tea.

Well then, it would be rude not to. It isn't Clerodendron splendens -
the formation of the raceme is wrong and as Charlie mentions, the
stamens are wrong. No, I'll stick with my original thought that it is
one of the Acanthus family. Until the weekend that is...