I always enjoy drawing a Jones’ banishment strip. They always follows the same pattern: Jones finds something interesting and plays with it like any normal cat would, and then in the last frame we find her banished from the house, sitting on the front step of the house, giving a perfectly reasonable explanation of why she behaved like she did. I’m on her side, as I am with any annoying five year old kid who, when he asks why he should change his behaviour, gets told ‘because I say so’. (You can tell I don’t have any children, can’t you.)

I drink a lot of tea at work. It’s normally PG Tips, the brand that comes in pyramidal teabags, recommended on the telly by knitted chimps. But every now and then I go through a herbal infusion phase. When I wrote this I was heavily into Pukka Herbs’ Three Mint Tea, a delicious infusion of peppermint, spearmint and fieldmint. And these are the kind of teabags that come with a tab and a string, so you can remove the teabag from your mug of hot water without having to use a spoon. They’re very dangly, and they smell rather like cat mint. How could Jones resist?