{"id":697,"date":"2023-09-21T02:33:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T00:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/?page_id=697"},"modified":"2026-04-18T00:09:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:09:24","slug":"this-is-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/index.php\/this-is-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wickedlola_highly_textured_collage_art_of_carnivale_-ar_83_-v_a61d6b61-085c-4102-b42f-37c0e2fe1fbd.png?resize=640%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wickedlola_highly_textured_collage_art_of_carnivale_-ar_83_-v_a61d6b61-085c-4102-b42f-37c0e2fe1fbd.png?resize=1024%2C384&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wickedlola_highly_textured_collage_art_of_carnivale_-ar_83_-v_a61d6b61-085c-4102-b42f-37c0e2fe1fbd.png?resize=300%2C113&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wickedlola_highly_textured_collage_art_of_carnivale_-ar_83_-v_a61d6b61-085c-4102-b42f-37c0e2fe1fbd.png?resize=768%2C288&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wickedlola_highly_textured_collage_art_of_carnivale_-ar_83_-v_a61d6b61-085c-4102-b42f-37c0e2fe1fbd.png?resize=1536%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wickedlola_highly_textured_collage_art_of_carnivale_-ar_83_-v_a61d6b61-085c-4102-b42f-37c0e2fe1fbd.png?resize=850%2C319&amp;ssl=1 850w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wickedlola_highly_textured_collage_art_of_carnivale_-ar_83_-v_a61d6b61-085c-4102-b42f-37c0e2fe1fbd.png?w=1792&amp;ssl=1 1792w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wickedlola_highly_textured_collage_art_of_carnivale_-ar_83_-v_a61d6b61-085c-4102-b42f-37c0e2fe1fbd.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>This year I will hit 60 and surprisingly I don\u2019t mind. I feel I have enough life experience of both good and bad behind me to thoroughly enjoy the life I have left<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cancer upended my life but also helped me create a much better one and I feel thankful for many, many things. Life threatening illnesses change your views on life as so many people are finding out these days. Sadly it\u2019s becoming more common than not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I came out of it feeling that I had to hone my days into achieving something useful if only to me.<br>Everyday I ensure that I create something. Be it art on canvas, in a journal or on my computer. Cooking something, tending to my tiny garden or writing. I found out how important close family are, real family that is and where my priorities lie. Shedding the rest was like peeling an onion an eye stinging layer at a time but infinitely calming and restorative in the long run. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This blog allows me to write about what matters to me. Thank you for reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wicked Lola<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year I will hit 60 and surprisingly I don\u2019t mind. I feel I have enough life experience of both good and bad behind me to thoroughly enjoy the life I have left Cancer upended my life but also helped me create a much better one and I feel thankful&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":698,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-697","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"https:\/\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/697\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}