The cat on the table and the knife in the cat

"The cat on the table and the knife in the cat.""I’m sorry, what was that?""It’s a Finnish saying. It’s about speaking your mind." As a cat-lover, I’m astonished. We’re sitting around the table on New Year’s Eve. A combination of new and old friends. An Irishman who practices a previously-to-my-ear unheard of method of growing potatoes in the air called ‘Aeroponics’, a Swedish couple, a gay couple (get over it), a white Kenyan farmer and his wife, a British TV producer and her muscle-ripped gym instructor boyfriend, my wife and I...