Hi, my name is Zippy1983!

Zippy1983 · November 7

Hi everyone,

very old soul here, fine vintage of 42 going on 92. Life long veteran of battling both mental and physical health conditions (The Acme Catalogue has proved useless 💣) Orignally from a small cotton mill town in Lancashire, now living in Middle Earth - I’ve yet to bump into the Fellowship.

I am of Scottish, Irish, Welsh, English, Swedish and Danish decent according to the old gene pool. I have been a practicing Buddhist for 15 years, still not found enlightenment, maybe I’ve not sat under the right tree (Conkers hurt when they land on the old heed) I guess that would make me a Kilt Wearing Celtic Buddhist Berserker!!

Most of my life between an early starter at 12 weeks prem to finally leaving the terrible two’s at 16 😈 I was an inmate at a children’s psychiatric unit between the ages of six to eight years old, school life was split between being a Statemented Child at 3 Special Needs Schools (Including Arkham Asylum) and main stream schools of which the latter I couldn’t cope. But the boarding school I attended between 95-99 have me stability, taught me life skills, taught me manners, respect, empathy and many outdoor pursuits 🏕️⛰️🥾 alongside driving various cars and motorbikes.

For the next 20 years I worked as a Gardening Assistant on private gardens and a large chemical plant in and around the town I grew up in and the big smoke near where I lived 🐝 Then I left there to move to the land of the crooked spire where I worked as a Support Worker, taking care of service users with mental and physical disabilities in there own homes, I looked at it as my way of giving something back after my own battles from birth. I loved, married and divorced two women in the space of 14 years, the first one was more like Hannibal Lector, the second was more akin to a Scottish Woman armed with a knife that after almost ten years took the knife and cut the heart out of me and then chucked it on a bonfire.

Now after a five year battle with my demons, this retired support garden worker is now living in a Supported Living Flat with many posh adaptations to make life that bit easier (Buck Palace isn’t a patch on it) I tend to live like an old Hermit isolated in a Croft in the middle of the highlands, only venturing out for medical appointments. I still use the old dog and bone to speak to CMHT and Crisis Lines when I need to. A poor Area Coordinator from the local council has been assigned my case, to try and help me to put a plan of attack in place for me to live again (100% not going to be on the scale of the Dams Raid) more on akin to that of a Dads Army exercise. Hopefully aid me to get back out to a coffee shop, theatre, comedy show, rock or metal concert.

The old Hobbies I love but struggle to do due to old dark matter, books my precious, motorsport, football, rugby union, cricket, ps5, listening to music, lego, meditation etc

I like travelling to - been to Fethiye in Southern Turkey 🇹🇷 (Not Bernard Matthew’s) and Puerto Vallarta in Mexico 🇲🇽 I’m travelling out to Antalya in 2027 as a solo traveller for the first time 🛫 flying from Ringway Aerodrome in a Tiger Moth, may take a few days!

Cerebral Palsy, Neurological Development Disorder, Eczema, Asthma, Long Covid, Acid/Bile Reflux (That Alien is still trying to escape from the stomach) Osteoarthritis - Hips, Back, Shoulder, EUBPD, ADHD, ASD, Depression, Anxiety, Insomnia (I Can’t Get No Sleep) basically I’m ready for taking to the vets, but I’m not ready yet! Still lots of of life, fight, spirit (Single Malt 🥃) and years ahead of me.

Anyhooo that’s me in a nutshell.

PS…. Bungle and George are under the Patio 🤫🤐🦄🌈