Chloe Ridgway

Little Loves: June 2020

June: we’re somehow already halfway through the year; three and a half months into lockdown; and ten weeks into homeschooling.   It has felt like a very up and down month overall and even though the Government have announced that lockdown is beginning to ease, life is still nowhere near being ‘back to normal’.  I’m…

Mimi: Twelve

We had grand plans and high hopes for Mimi’s twelfth birthday.  We were supposed to be in Edinburgh in Scotland for the weekend and were intending to surprise her with an afternoon filled with exploring the Harry Potter trail and seeking out the best ice cream in the city (according to my friend Zoe, who…

Little Loves: May 2020

May is going to be a month to remember even though it was more about what didn’t happen, rather than what did, much like April was.  We’re now at the end of ten whole weeks of lockdown and have survived an entire half term of homeschooling.  We were all very glad of the arrival of…

40 Things Before I’m 40: Annual Update (2020)

On my 33rd birthday four years ago, I wrote a post called ‘40 things Before I’m 40‘.  It was a list of forty things that I want to do, achieve and experience before I turn forty years old in 2023. I’d originally started the list when I turned thirty but I hadn’t launched my blog…

Little Stories From Lockdown Life

A small collection of rambling thoughts, a few notes about feelings and a selection of little stories from the last nine weeks of lockdown life which, for some reason, I feel compelled to share.  Perhaps simply to document them as a memento of these strange times and maybe also partly so that they exist outside…

Little Loves: April 2020

April has quite possibly been one of the strangest, loveliest and most frustrating (in equal measures) months that I’ve ever experienced. We’ve spent the full month in lockdown – in fact, I think we’re coming up to six whole weeks since it started at the end of March and life looks very different now from…

A Few Thoughts On Coronavirus / Covid-19

It’s April 2020 and we are deep in the throes of a global pandemic outbreak of coronavirus, also known as Covid-19. I’m writing this to document what life is currently like, the impact this situation is having on us and a few of my thoughts and feelings about it all. This blog was always intended…