My old school-friend Caroline has sent me lots of photographs for this blog and this is the last. The lucky girl who gets to eat her dinner on the kitchen worktop is Miss Megan. Caroline is grieving for her dog Daisy, who recently passed away. I send her a hug and hope she is feeling a little better now.

Rachel Brockbank’s cat Lucky watching tv. She’s blocking the screen though, so I can’t tell what sort of programme she likes.

On Thursday at Presentation Evening, I made a sentimental last goodbye to the group of students who left my school this summer. Most have moved on confidently and are now settled into their new lives of study and work. For all Facebook’s faults, I love it, because it lets me stay in touch with a great group of wonderful young people of whom I became very fond.

Among them is Jason, who appears to be winning a staring match with Poppet, who we first met in March.

I can hear Barney shouting when I look at this photograph. He belongs to Laura, a colleague of mine.