Chloe Ridgway

Winter 2025/26: The Moments In Between

I take hundreds of photos every month, and most of them don’t get shared with anyone, let alone online. And yet the moments in time that those photos capture are just as important a part of our story as the other images that I do choose to share. I originally created this blog as a…

Life Lately: February 2026

February is the shortest month of the year and yet it always feels like the longest.  I’m happy to be writing this post now because it means that it’s finally over and I survived.  February holds a lot of sad thoughts and feelings for me – some years I seem to get through it all…

Life Lately: January 2026

January – all 1,842 days of it – has felt exceptionally long.  And, as ever, it has simultaneously disappeared in the blink of an eye.  How are we one whole month into 2026 already?! My job has kept me incredibly busy since Christmas, which I’m grateful for.  Life is ridiculously full-on. There has been so…

2025: Wrapped

For nine years now I’ve been tracking my year in numbers – curiously measuring the twelve months that have just passed according to all the things that are *actually* important to me (as opposed to all the things we’re told by the media and society to measure ourselves by).  These metrics are the elements that…

Life Lately: December 2025

It seems crazy to be writing about what’s been going on in our world throughout December – I’m sure that summer has only just finished and the girls went back to school not that long ago…? As it always is, December has been a month of fast and slow; of busy-ness and quiet; of being…

Life Lately: November 2025

To me, November always feels like a bit of an in-between month.  A waiting.  A head-down-and-get-on-with-things-until-the-next-break kind of a month. If months had a colour, November would be grey.  Which probably isn’t really very fair because there’s all the glitter and smoke of bonfire night (although I didn’t manage to do sparklers this year), plus…

Autumn 2025: The Moments In Between

I take hundreds of photos every month, and most of them don’t get shared with anyone, let alone online. And yet the moments in time that those photos capture are just as important a part of our story as the other images that I do choose to share. I originally created this blog as a…

Life Lately: October 2025

For many years, I have maintained that September is my favourite month.  This year, I’m declaring that October has the equal honour of joint first place for the accolade.  I don’t know exactly what’s changed, but something inside me has shifted.  Perhaps I’m paying closer attention to the little things and noticing the ordinary everyday…

Life Lately: September 2025

September passed in the blink of an eye.  It’s my favourite month of the year – there’s something about that glorious blend of the warmth of the late summer sun, coupled with the cooler morning autumn air and the golden light that makes everything it touches look magical, that makes me feel like anything could…