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Nick
was born in the sunny vale of Manchester, in North-West England, back
when everyone else was busy wearing flared trousers and purple shirts.
He has continued to be out of step with fashion ever since.
Thanks
to a certain ‘Mr Herriot’ Nick’s childhood ambition
was to become a veterinary surgeon, an ambition that was only
strengthened after a soul-scarring week working in the Coronation
Street Shop at Granada Studios tour for his school work
experience. He still sometimes wakes at night screaming about a
shelf full of Vera Duckworth mugs smashing, and to this day the sound
of the Beach Boys (which was, for some reason, played in the shop on a
24-hour loop) brings him out in a cold sweat.
Several
years later, after five years at Bristol University (during which time
he was promoted from a lowly ‘one-pint wonder’ to an
impressive ‘three-pint wonder), Nick found himself out in the
real world, qualified as a vet.
Soul Purpose was
written as a response to his first few years at the sharp end of
veterinary life. He now works as a small animal vet in Plymouth,
and is feeling much better, thank you. If he ever wonders whether he is
in the right job, he hums the first few bars of ‘I get
around’ to himself, and knows that things could have been much,
much worse.
Meet the Family
Nick
is married to his darling wife Kerry who simply adores having her
picture taken, and will be overjoyed to learn that she is now on the
internet.
Kerry
has instilled in Nick a love of greyhounds, lurchers, and other dogs
that tend to cut themselves open on a regular basis. Here are
Katie and Geri – the canine equivalents of Pinky and the
Brain. Also here is the much-missed one who started it all,
Beattie.
Nick
once swore he would never even go out with a horsey woman, let alone
marry one. Nevertheless, he seems to have ended up supporting three of
the bloody things – Boy, Sophie and Emily. Emily came out of
Sophie, and anyone who calls it ‘the miracle of birth’ has
never had to pull one horse out of another in the middle of the bloody
night.
Last,
but not least, meet Vienna. Please don’t let the picture
fool you. She’s a killer. A killer!!
So, now you know all you need to about Nick and his family. Now, stop reading this and go buy a book!
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