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.

The cold weather is on its way. Isn’t it time you made your cat wear a jumper? Our model today is Caroline Bailey’s cat Jasper, wearing Caroline’s Yorkshire Terrier’s jumper. You may think it’s unkind, but I’m very hard-hearted when it comes to dressing cats up; I just think it’s funny. 

Yesterday’s cats were Frank and Lucky. Rachel sent me lots of pictures, so here is another. This time, Frank is showing his IT skills and sending a few tweets. Clever cat.

Rachel Brockbank is one of the many lovely language-teaching people I have come to know through my Twitter network. Over time, I have met many of them in real life at conferences and teacher events, but I have yet to meet Rachel. I’m sure I will before too long.

Today’s cats are Lucky and Frank. Rachel says Frank likes watching television and tweeting, whilst Lucky is a little more reserved but loves lots of fussing. I have several more pictures of these two and will bring them to you between now and New Year.

Thanks Rachel!