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 / March 26, 2013
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We alighted, as the British conductors say, in Uptown New York and walked. It was cold and windy and we sought refuge in the M&M shop, a pizza place, daughts was hungry, and the ...
Vivienne / March 25, 2013
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I have just returned from a quick trip to New York for something my daughter just had to do! It took her all of thirty minutes… …and gave me three days in a swanky hotel ...
Vivienne / February 13, 2013
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We spent three days in the Florida keys and hubs took me for a walk! It made a change from sitting in the car and doing our sightseeing through a windscreen. We walked across a bridge. ...
Vivienne / February 12, 2013
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The speed limit in Florida is much slower than Texas, or at least our neck of the woods of Texas, compared to the neck of the woods we were visiting in Florida. Most of the time we were ...
Vivienne / February 7, 2013
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I had two boys, delightful specimens of mankind, surprises each, entering the world with a scream and, “It’s a boy!” The third time I wanted no surprises. During my ...
Vivienne / January 30, 2013
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Yes, I Facebooked something about my youngest being in Vegas. I think it was in response to a friend’s post. The only reason I was on was because I am finding email is not the ...
Vivienne / January 28, 2013
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I have a problem with thinking everyone is on the same page as me. They very often aren’t, especially if I don’t know them that well, but I still give them the benefit of ...
Vivienne / January 8, 2013
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Two weeks after Christmas it is still freezing cold! I don’t think I’ve had my heat running so long…ever… Don’t tell the children that, I ...
Vivienne / December 27, 2012
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My office roof is tin. It sounds tin at least. I’m guessing it’s metal. When the rain patters on it I am taken back to holidays spent by rainy seasides in England in our ...
Vivienne / December 24, 2012
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My film maker son is really good at asking questions. Alone with him in a car, train or kitchen, as a toddler or teen, a steady slew of phrases requiring answers would slip from his ...
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.
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Dominion
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Hannah’s Child
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