I'd like to introduce you to our latest part-time member of staff. Meet Bentley. He works here occasionally, and his role is an important one: to enchant us, to pop from desk to desk while he checks out what we're up to (and whether we have inadvertently put anything edible in the bin under our desk), to lie in such a way that you have to step over him to move around the office, and generally to make us laugh.

We've all recently learned not to prepare a yummy lunch and turn our back, leaving it on the kitchen counter. A verbal warning was given, but no formal disciplinary action was taken - this time.

Bee Clarke