Hi, my name is SideshowBob!

SideshowBob

Hi to all

Rachel_Scope

Hi @SideshowBob (great name by the way)! Welcome to the community 😊

What's brought you here today? Are you enjoying the sunshine or are you melting!?

Bluebell21

Hi @SideshowBob, I hope you have had a good day.

SideshowBob

Hi, yes I’ve had a productive day. Bluebell21. Yourself??

Bluebell21

Yes thanks @SideshowBob Mainly housework and washing. Making the most of the warm weather.

SideshowBob

yep sounds like my Saturday morning, I’m a once a week housework kinda guy. I live on my own but boy can I mess a flat up lol

Bluebell21

What other things do you like doing @SideshowBob do you have any hobbies?

SideshowBob

Yes I'm a medieval reenactor. I did 14yrs as a combatant (swords and armour), and since my accident I do living history ( at The tic cooking and stuff). Next year I'll be doing cooking, weapons talks and also making maille armour.

Same question to you

Bluebell21

That's amazing @SideshowBob I do a lot of art and crafts which I really enjoy.

SideshowBob

I enjoy visits to hovercraft and haskins. I have two bags ticket and am saving for a potters wheel. What crafts are you in to?

SideshowBob

Sorry clay not ticket

Bluebell21

Good morning @SideshowBob I do X stitch and make cards for family and friends. If you would like to see some of my work look under Coffee Lounge under Categories - KaleidoScope Our own gallery for members' art work, crafts and photographs.

Albus_Scope

That sounds amazing @SideshowBob I have a few friends who do reenactments and they love it. I recently went to an iron age farm to learn how to make amulets from bronze, it was great fun. Which kind of reenactment were you fighting in?

SideshowBob

medieval 15th century, although I’m joining a new group.

Cross stitch and card making are cool. Do you hobbycraft or shopping channels. Reenactment is amazing. Such camaraderie.

Do you mind me asking why you’re on scope? I’m here cause it’s so difficulty to make friends and that makes me terribly lonely 😞☹️😢

Bluebell21

I get them from wherever I can @SideshowBob Sometimes charity shops have some good buys.

I am on Scope to get some advise if I need it and give some if I can and chat with other members.

SideshowBob

fair play.
I was in a serious accident 8/8/18. I was a pedestrian that ran into the path of a motorcycle going 50mph. I suffered life changing injuries: broke left tib & fib, right fib, snapped my pelvis, broke the ball off of both hips, unstable fractures to three vertebrae, broke my nose and a rib puncturing my right lung. I was put in an induced coma after being airlifted to trauma hospital, woke up three wks later and had a further four months in hospital. I’m in a wheelchair now, which sucks. Well that’s my sob story

Bluebell21

Hi @SideshowBob thank you for sharing your story. It must be very difficult for you to adjust to your new way of life. Do you any help with this? I find it is better to concentrate on what you are able to do now and not look back on the life you had before. You have a brilliant hobby and looking to do pottery as well is a good idea. Are you able to go out and socialise? Your Local Council should have a list of clubs in your area.

SideshowBob

I’ve adjusted well to the wheelchair and problems that that throws up. Everyone I know says that they can’t believe how positive I have been throughout. It’s in the dark hours on my own that I sometimes ruminate on things.

Never thought of the council, I will give them a try. I’m going to college night school to do GCSE English, meet some new people. I did maths GCSE a few years back (9yrs), time flys. I also Graduated from preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector Grade 4.

Are you a member of any groups? I love history grew up fascinated with dinosaurs and palaeontology. I

Bluebell21

You are an amazing person to have gone through everything you have and been so positive about everything. @SideshowBob

I am doing an art course at a day class run by the Council and I am also doing an Open University degree in Psychology. I have always been interested in how the human mind works and how it influences behaviour.

SideshowBob

Cool stuff. I want, in the future, to do an access course at my local uni centre. I do better in classrooms, although I have a tendency to fail asleep in them. What sort of art do you enjoy the most?

SideshowBob