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!?

SideshowBob

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

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

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

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

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 😞☹️😢

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

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

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

SideshowBob

Fantastic!

I can draw but not for a long time. I always second guess myself, it’s a confidence thing. I have two large bags of terracotta clay ready for when I buy a potters wheel. Got my eyes on one, but need desperately to buy a new mattress topper, I’m in a lot of pain with my pelvis and need physio, but I’m low on holiday allowance now so might have to wait. Do you have a favourite subject to draw or paint?

SideshowBob

oh and I can babble for England

onedayatatime

Hello @SideshowBob !!! My son introduced me to the world of Buhurt through YouTube and I've been fascinated by the armour, history and of course the battles!!👍 Amazing sport! I'm actually a quiet, garden loving, arty crafty old girl, perhaps not someone you'd expect to sit with a bag of popcorn and watch armoured combat!!😂 Love the idea of working with clay, really like Grayson Perry ceramics, mainly his artwork that he applies to his pieces. Did you enjoy The Great Pottery Throwdown? Very inspiring. Just to add, I'm on day 3 of recovery from spine decompression surgery at home and have recently purchased a Panda double memory foam mattress topper for £150 from Argos. It's making a big difference 👍👍

SideshowBob

hello @onedayatatime

If you’d of known me when I got into the medieval combat (which very different from buhurt, you’d of thought “what, him?” I wouldn’t say boo to a goose, but once I got into it the shackles of self doubt were off. In the fourteen years of combat 8-18 shows a year I had quite a good records, I was never an immortal, if I was beaten I’d go to ground, and always stuck to “we have to go to work on Monday!”

I absolutely love the throw down even weeping Keith. Very inspire. I want to learn to throw as pots and bits and bobs break easily and it’s expensive buying at reenactment or reenactors markets. I know it will take time but I can be quite tenacious when I want to be. I’m going to gets some maile rings 8mm to make a maille shirt (for me slow going but time is one thing that I have in abundance. Love competition shows grow down, bake off, sewing bee and blown away (Netflix, glass blowing). With the reenacting, I do living history now I’m in a chair and have been gathering items for my display.

the wheelchair is usually covered, and for next year I have wooden medieval folding chairs. Oh and the beard has gone as well

SideshowBob

sorry about my spelling

onedayatatime

Very impressive display and I would like to ask about that box please. Would that be for pulses, spices? I am super intrigued with your interests! I do like craftsmanship and would also like to know what is in that pie😁 What a very inspiring person you are!

SideshowBob

hi @onedayatatime

The box was a find in a charity shop for £2.00 bargain, ha looks the part. Yes I keep spices in there: cubebs, long pepper, dried juniper berries, grains of paradise, salt. All super expensive in the medieval. Long pepper and grains of paradise can be purchased off of the internet. Worth trying them as they have unique flavours. I really enjoy the long pepper it’s not as hot as black pepper.

The pie is salt crust pastry and the filling is wood shavings for pets. It is dun dun dah a Stunt Pie! Ha some many people say oh that pie looks good and when they ask what’s in it I say children!

Zoom in on the middle of the second pic and you can see the spices in little wooden dishes.

I also have a fake leg of ham, some stunt sausages a braceeach of phrasants, partridges and mallards.

My son is going to make two new tables for me.
It really is a great hobby and can’t wait to get back to it next year

SideshowBob

that rock like thing is actually jaggery a type of raw sugar.