This man has achieved a level of dad that some parents can only dream of.
The Elf on the Shelf tradition has been a thing in the US for a decade now but has only really hit the UK in a big way in the last few years.
For the uninitiated (i.e. blissfully child-free), the tradition is inspired by an American children’s picture book, written in 2005, which explains how Santa uses his elves to find out who’s been naughty and nice in the lead up to Christmas.
The elves are basically tiny, badly-behaved, spies.