Chloe Ridgway

Project Happy {Year 6}: Days 21-30

It has been an absolutely mad few weeks.  A flying visit to Spain for my Grannie’s funeral; a nasty tummy bug that flattened both Mimi and the husband for several days; ongoing issues with the kitchen repair/refurbishment following the fire seven weeks ago; the logistics of managing multiple after school club/sports/rehearsal commitments; plus a crazy…

Grannie

Two weeks ago, on 19th March 2019, my Grannie left this earth.  She was just six weeks short of her 99th birthday. She was an incredible character in so many different ways.  She out-lived two of her four children and leaves behind her a legacy of eight grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.  Family was everything to…

March 2019: 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…

Project Happy {Year 6}: Days 11-20

A weird week full of illness and sad news and big decisions and trying to keep up with crazy school and sport and work schedules.  A very ordinary collection of photographs but capturing each one really has helped me survive these last few days.  Sometimes it’s the little things that matter the most.

Little Loves: March 2019

March has been an interesting month.  It has felt pretty full-on, intense, and, if I’m honest, rather stressful at times.  I’m going to be quite glad to see the back of it. We still have no kitchen following the fire we had last month, although thankfully things are starting to move forwards now and we…

Project Happy {Year 6}: Days 1-10

I’ll be honest.  Life has been a bit…challenging, recently. Looking forward to our annual trip to our happy place in Cornwall is one thing currently keeping me going.  The other thing is this project.  Committing to find a moment of joy in each day, no matter how difficult that day feels, redirects my attention to…

Dad: 4 Years {Opening The Cardboard Box}

February is over, we’re almost halfway through March and I feel like I can breathe again.  I hadn’t realised I was holding my breath.  But I must have been because suddenly there’s a little bit less of a squeezing feeling in my chest. Last month marked four years since my Dad died, suddenly and unexpectedly,…

Project Happy {Year 5}: Days 351-365

Half term fun, an utterly glorious week of ‘false Spring’ (that I’m now mourning the loss of), spectacular skies and the end of the fifth full year of capturing a moment of joy every single day – I think that pretty much sums up this collection of Project Happy images. I honestly never thought I’d…

February 2019: 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…

Little Loves: February 2019

February has been weird.  It’s usually my least favourite month as it’s the time of year I associate most with my Dad – his birthday plus the anniversaries of his death and his funeral all take place in February.  I usually find it incredibly difficult.  This year has been better though: I’ve been consciously choosing…