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 / September 26, 2013
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Tuesday September 17th Malaga, Spain I slept for about 2 hours then had disembarkation. It was painful! I was so tired and very hungry but I was finished in an hour and went to see ...
Vivienne / September 25, 2013
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My thinking came about because of the number of biscuits I eat a week, I reasoned I should cut them out before my midline started to wail about needing larger trousers.
Vivienne / September 24, 2013
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Saturday September 14th At Sea I woke up to teach an aerobics class. I was very nervous and expecting no one to be there. But boy was I wrong! There were a lot of people and I ended up ...
Vivienne / September 23, 2013
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Today was a new day. Worries about our future could be laid aside. We went for an afternoon gin and tonic at an obscure bar in the City of London. A little outing that took us out of ...
Vivienne / September 19, 2013
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I heard a child exclaim,
"Let's slide in the mud!" and I imagined my feet going from under me and walking home with the evidence smeared on the seat of my pants.
Vivienne / September 19, 2013
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Feeling battered by all the changes taking place in my life. I need to go to the Shepherd's Well for replenishment.
Vivienne / September 18, 2013
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Thursday September 12th At Sea ‘Bang! Bang! Bang! Cabin inspection!’ woke me up at 10:45 this morning. I tried to get down out of my bunk as 3 men stood there watching me stumble to ...
Vivienne / September 18, 2013
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A joss stick is burning in the lounge and from where I work I can almost hear the crackling of logs as the faintly smoky smell drifts down the hallway.
Vivienne / September 17, 2013
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It was take my parents to work today for me in Dover! I was able to show them the ship, we ate, we talked, we laughed, we cried...
Vivienne / September 16, 2013
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Monday September 9th, Zeebrugge, Belgium I woke up at 1 today expecting to go off the ship, until I spoke with Erica and she said it was a bus and train ride to get anywhere, so I ...
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
