Jimmy's Recuperation

STITCHING THE TAPESTRY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS

This audio forms part of a series of audio interviews conducted in 2023 by Smartify as part of the Spirit of the Highlands and Islands project. Listen and discover the Spirit of the Highlands and Islands through the eyes of the stitchers of the Tapestry of the Highlands and Islands.

Join Jimmy of the Maerl Stitchers as he talks about how stitching has helped in his stroke recovery, being the only cockerel in a hen run, and putting the files back in the 'cabinet'.

I still enjoy it. It's something I haven't done, really concentrated on for almost 60 years. I'll never going back to how I was living before, so I'm on a new life. I've had 3 or 4 lives if you look at it that way before and this is the final one. See, I don't go anywhere else. No matter what.