Love certainly does strange things to people.
For a young farmer from Northern Ireland it has meant packing up her cows and shipping them over to Perthshire after she fell for the man of her dreams.
Valerie Orr’s eyes met those of her Scottish boyfriend James Cameron’s across a cattle judging ring at Castlewellan Show in County Down in 2012 and two years later – after another chance meeting – they started a long-distance relationship.
Mr Cameron, 42, lives in Glenshee, and Ms Orr, 27, is from Ballygowan, but she chose to take her herd of Irish Moiled cattle and move to be with the beef stockman.
Ms Orr said: “We first met at Castlewellan Show in 2012 when James was judging the Irish Moiled and Shorthorn classes where I happened to be showing.
“I had a very good day that day being placed reserve Irish Moiled breed champion with my homebred cow Knowehead Jane. Two years later we met again at the February Stirling Bull sales and the rest as they say is history.”
Explaining the move, Ms Orr said: “Long-distance relationships can be very hard work and with both of us working on farms, getting chances to get away to see each other was very difficult.”
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