My thousandth post!

Loyal readers, this is truly a day to celebrate. It is my THOUSANDTH post.

So, I have decided to show a few of my favourite photos from my past and invite you to join me in a wild celebration tonight. The sauna will be on, the muikku will be tasty and swimming in nip, and there is tervajäätelöä for the brave. Tervetuloa!


Here is one of the first photos from my blog: I am being taught many things by Stran-veli. I was so grateful to be in a home, and to have other cats with me. No one knows my story of how I came to be alone but we will always be grateful to the very kind family in Muhos who rescued me and took me to ystävämme eläinlääkäri, who found me my Äiti.

Äiti loves this photo.

And I loved tearing the wallpaper . By the time we moved from our apartment, Äiti was sure I had cost her the money she paid to promise the flat would be kept tidy, hehehe.

And I think this is a very pleasing portrait.

 And here I am hoping some stinky birds will fly straight into my mouth, and not onto the feeders outside.

Loyal readers, this brings me painful memories - my naughty knee cap! Here I am being very brave, recovering from surgery.

And I like this photo - but it was such a missed opportunity. If only I could have sneaked in with a little paw and pushed Aila-sisko.....

When we moved, I had a huge new kingdom, and many cat trees were bought. Here I am testing the height of the balcony.

 And sitting in the sun, amongst the lush green summer plants.

And Äiti's bestest buddy Carolyn-täti came from England to visit me. This was before the catio and I am on The Leash. I was being very well-behaved.

And here is The Leash, hehehe. I was out hunting elsewhere.

When Mirsku-veli arrived he spent two days upstairs. He would not come down as he could not work out what to do about Tessie-kilpikonna who was waiting downstairs. We all thought it was so funny. Here I am trying to convince him all is safe.

A tangle in the summer sunshine with Stran-veli.

And here I am inspecting the catio. This was one of Äiti's better home improvements - but of course she did not build it.

But she did build the Evil Flap in the tuulikaappi. It did not survive the winter.

Here I am inspecting the early snowfall. The Rock of Norway is very useful to shelter behind.

There have been many of these occasions!

 And here I have big sympathy for Aila-sisko. She has just had her naughty kneecap surgery.

But I am well-recovered from mine by now and am here dashing around with my favourite mouse. 

And confidently tearing apart another box.

 And I can brave the Finnish winters of course.

 And I enjoy a game of 'Angry Birds' on the catio. I am very angry that no real birds want to play.

 And I was not so happy when the ninjas arrived. Here Harris-veli is trying to deal with one.

But Pekka-poika is a pretty good playmate. He does act like a big girlcat though when he throws his paws upwards in horror, hehehe.

Here are many of perheeni, my family. We generally get on okay. As long as they know I am the boss (Äiti's note - yeah, right: you want to be boss!)

And when we have visitors I always join in very politely at the table. Here I show human manners and eat pulla. At other times I show cat manners and peemail, hehehe.

I am, after all, King Kitty Cat of Finland (North).

Loyal readers, please leave a comment. For every comment made, Äiti will donate 1€ (up to a maximum of 50 comments)  to The Moggery. This is the eläinkoti in Bristol from which Stran, Aila, Harris, Lewis, Monty whom we miss a lot, and Kilda whom I never knew, came.  Without them, this blog would never have happened and I would not have perheeni. 

So today raise a paw to another thousand posts and health, peace and happiness to perheeni and all of our friends and acquaintances. Tervetuloa!