For Lin, an extraordinary life has become ordinary. Even for most animal lovers, a relationship where the livestock comes before you can take some getting used to, but when Lin met Peter Wright – star of Channel 5's The Yorkshire Vet – back in 1984, she knew she’d have to kiss goodbye to life as she knew it. ‘We met at a joint work do, where my dentist’s office mixed with the local vet’s on the same street,’ Lin smiles. ‘There was a spark straight away but, oddly for our first date, he took me to an abattoir. 'An old cow who couldn’t be used for meat was being slaughtered.
Peter wanted to observe and work out what was wrong with the cow. I waited for him outside. It didn’t get much better as it went on, really,’ she laughs.
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