‘I love her to bits!’

‘I love her to bits!’

Julie Wilson Nimmo is reminiscing about the very first scene she filmed in Tobermory, Mull, the real-life town with its rows of colourful waterfront houses that acts as Balamory. She had to wave to the camera in front of Miss Hoolie’s green cottage for the opening credits of the Scottish children’s series that first aired in 2002. She was 29 and a new mum to her seven-month-old son Benny, who went to Mull with her, along with her parents. “I cou…