To help keep the Create-a-Brand garden looking respectable this winter, Louise has purchased a gnome.

He has done an excellent job so far of watching over the garden, rabbits and bird population. We don’t know what we would do without him.

Archie, unfortunately, has a phobia of gnomes (his trip to watch Gnomeo & Juliet earlier this year did little to help matters). He is not remotely impressed by our new team member, with his first response being “What’s this?” and then “I don’t like it, get rid of it!”

Luckily Create-a-Brand is a democracy, and with everyone else’s support - and Dan’s stirring speech on how the gnome was providing him “creative inspiration” - our gnome has been allowed to stay.

Archie is resigned to this fact for the moment, but it has not stopped him creating opportunities for a future ‘unfortunate accident’.

We’ll let you know if the gnome survives the winter, and visitors to Create-a-Brand HQ should keep an eye out to see if any more have arrived.