Vivienne / February 11, 2024
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There are a lot of fields surrounding us but since our land is bordered with trees ...
Vivienne / May 16, 2012
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My daughter seems to have this thing about nearly treading in unspeakables. I’m not talking about dog poo although that’s bad enough. I’ve already talked about the ...
Vivienne / May 15, 2012
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We saw The Harry Potter Exhibit, for which the advertisements did absolutely no justice at all. We were told it would take at least 3 hours to surf the sets and hubs and I looked at ...
Vivienne / March 6, 2012
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On Saturday it was Simon’s birthday, our zoo keeper son, and for the first time in his 24 years of life we weren’t there to celebrate with him. Instead of moping around and reminiscing ...
Vivienne / February 23, 2012
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When I return from walking in the afternoons I start to peel off the layers. The flat stays warm although we have had no heat on from 10am-5pm. It is south facing so even on the ...
Vivienne / February 5, 2012
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I woke up this morning to snow and a fox! The thing about snow is it falls heavily without a sound. Not that we even hear the rain in our flat because we don’t have a roof directly ...
Vivienne / January 27, 2012
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Today, on my yoga mat I practiced. I love the way my instructor refers to my class as a practice. It is not a performance; there are no comparisons allowed; we are not to get frustrated ...
Vivienne / September 25, 2011
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Our youngest daughter visited us today. She had called, well, skyped, last weekend for an hour and said she wanted to come home to see us…could she? What a question! We spent the ...
Vivienne / September 20, 2011
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I scrawled across my postcards from Rome, “Nothing’s changed!” It was supposed to be a joke because there’s not a lot anyone can do to a ruin. They’re ...
Vivienne / August 25, 2011
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I used to own a restaurant in Guernsey a channel island between England and France. It is a twee little place only 5 miles by 7 miles by 9 miles and gets all the weather heaven cares ...
Well hello there! My name is Vivienne McNeny.
I am an empty nester exploring life as a Boomer…you could say I'm happily Boomering along!
As a homeschooling Mum I have finally quit the job of role model and mentor to my four children. I do what I want to do, eat when I feel like it, enjoy life with my blue eyed cowboy and clean my house once a month or so whether it needs it or not!
In true English form I write about the emergence of my true identity now that I can no longer hide behind my children as their Mum.
Recommended Reading:
Dominion
1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany. The global economy strains against the weight of the long German war against Russia still raging in the east. The British people find themselves under increasingly authoritarian rule--the press, radio, and television tightly controlled, the British Jews facing ever greater constraints.
Hannah’s Child
In this award-winning memoir Stanley Hauerwas gives a frank, transparent account of his own life interwoven with the development of his thought. Unique to this paperback edition is a new afterword that offers Hauerwas's reflections on responses to Hannah's Child.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
