I  work with Yen-Min Anderson, who comes from Taiwan. At February half-term she married her husband in a beautiful ceremony in Bristol (I know it was beautiful, because I saw the photographs). As one does, Yen-Min got married again in the Easter break. Luckily, she married the same chap again, but this time in Taiwan. The honey-mooners took this photograph and let me share it with you.

Here is what Yen-Min told me: “[This] … is the cat we saw at a restaurant on Orchid Island. It was sitting on a sofa when we were browsing the handmade souvenirs at the restaurants. I don’t know its name, either. The cat is not afraid of people, so lots of tourists like to take photos of it. The restaurant is near the sea, so we and the cat could hear the sound of sea when it was quiet.” 

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Can you tell which is Tango and which is a cuddly toy? I had to look a couple of times. Tango lives at the home of three brothers who attend my school. Their mum Alexa kindly let me have some photographs so that Tango could have her moment of fame. One day I will post some pictures of her kittens.
Alexa’s oldest son leaves our school soon and I will miss him and the rest of his Year 11 French class very much.  

Yesterday, we had a cat and a dog, today we have a cat and some fish, courtesy of James Bancroft. This is Gizmo, keeping the closest possible eye on a very odd-looking fish (sorry James, I am a fish-ignoramus). Gizmo looks very comfortable and warm.

Hendrix is back! He’s a splendid Bengal who we already met on 25th April. I received this beautiful photograph from Mark yesterday and had to share it with you straight away. Gorgeous photography, Mark!

Another adorable picture of Millie the kitten today. She lives with my colleague Kate, who teaches . . . music! Gorgeous.

My friend Karen Fountain’s cats Geordie and Ginger have already featured on this blog here. Yesterday  she sent me a new photograph of her mum and dad’s cat:

‘This is a picture of Fudge, who’s around 14 years old, and he’s my parents’ cat. Fudge is also known as “The Ginger Ninja”, because we are all convinced he is part feral (or possibly bipolar?). He switches from being hugely affectionate to trying to bite or scratch you, without warning. A cat not to be trusted, but much loved, nevertheless.’

Cody is an 8 year-old seal-point Ragdoll who lives with Linda, right next door to my lovely mother-in-law Margaret and sister-in-law Carol. I only met him for the first time this evening and he is so soft, that you can hardly tell if you are touching him. Linda brushes him every day and it really shows; his fur is perfect.

When I asked Linda to tell me stories about him, she mentioned that he responds to lots of whistles with different messages. If someone visits who doesn’t like cats, she tells Cody to get in his bed – and he does!!

But … the best part of the story is that Linda has a stairlift in her house and Cody is very partial to riding up and down on it. I would love to see that!

We have already met Pedro here. Pedro lives with Claire Hampson in North Yorkshire. He just loves this windowsill; I think it’s very considerate of him not to knock the birthday cards off while he stretches out.