Our names are Steve & Daphne Butters and we live on the outskirts of Sheffield in a place called Handsworth, which is mentioned in the Doomsday Book. Handsworth also boasts the only pub situated in a graveyard! Handsworth is situated a few minutes from the M1 and is just 10 minutes from Sheffield Airport and the railway station. Steve is a technical representative for Kemira Coatings, a paint manufacturer, and Daphne is a senior science technician at a local school. We met at a paint company in the north-east in 1978 where we were both training as paint technologists. We both work to subsidise our cat breeding hobby. We have both had cats since childhood, and have been interested in the Maine Coon since it first stepped onto British shores in the mid-1980's. We have been members of the GCCF affiliated Maine Coons Cat Club since 1989. Steve is the current Secretary for the Maine Coon Cat Club, having held this position since 1999.  Daphne was Secretary of the Maine Coon Cat Club from 1990 to 1999. She now edits the club newsletter, maintains the club website and is Show Manager for the club show in 2003. Having judges who have actually bred the breed of cat they judge is very important and Daphne is a Full GCCF Maine Coon Judge and a Probationer Norwegian Forest Cat judge.