September 1st 2007
Catherine is a girl. I know this because I counted her shoes. Catherine owns a lot of shoes, despite her only owning one pair of feet. Her favourites are her large collection of Doctor Marten boots, shoes, and sandals. She was overjoyed when we walked into a DM shop in Camden and the shop owner saw her patent yellow leather DM sandals and proclaimed "Oh, those are interesting, I've not seen those before." "Yes", I thought, "he's got himself a sale there." Thirty minutes and Eighty pounds later, Catherine's shoe collection had grown to the tune of a new pair of boots.
Catherine was born in Exeter in 1977 to Alan and Jenny Rounsfell. Tiring of the Devon lifestyle they soon moved to Yeovil, Somerset where Catherine began her education, following in the (destructive?) wake of her elder brother, David, and even more elder sister, Patricia. School life for Catherine was much the same as any other child of the time - full of the joys of learning.
Following some time spent at Yeovil College, where she and I first officially met, Catherine continued her education at Bournemouth University. There she studied Rock, with some of the greats: Clapton; Hendrix; Page; Wilson; Formby. Oh. Wait. Hang on. There she studied rocks, along with conservational sciences, landscape history and so on, on a Heritage Conservation course. She completed the course with a 2.2, a "drinking (wo)man's degree", which paved her way to her current career as assistant curator of the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton. She can often be found politely answering queries from people who ask her "where the Spitfire is", and rarely tires of my comments about the "dirty focker."