Vivienne / September 8, 2024
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Our neighbour has a Jack Russell puppy. She lives in a small farmhouse at the ...
Vivienne / July 28, 2023
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We love High Streets; In America I think the equivalent would be downtown although there is an old 60’s single by British singer Petula Clark called Downtown probably back then ...
Vivienne / July 26, 2023
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There was a minor hiccup in our travels but first we went to see friends in Highgate who Hubs has known for donkey’s years. They are both artists so we usually buy a piece or two ...
Vivienne / July 24, 2023
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The county of Kent is known as The Garden of England. Lots of fruit and veg grown there as well as gorgeous landscaped properties, flower allotments, neighbourhood gardens and parks, ...
Vivienne / July 20, 2023
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For the first time in twelve years we took our annual trip to London in the summer. This time there wasn’t any pressure to wrap up loose ends; there were no houses to clear out; ...
Vivienne / July 17, 2023
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The landmark birthday party lasted a few hours and was typically English. For those of you who don’t know what that means, dancing happens – immediately! Even in private ...
Vivienne / July 14, 2023
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Let’s start at the very beginning shall we? Your Papa and I fell for each other hook, line and sinker in the City of Love… Paris. So, when we started our family we had ...
Vivienne / July 12, 2023
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We decided to go to London in the summer…I know, High Season! However, going in July and August turned out not to be so bad, we secured our regular airbnb for 5 weeks, used some ...
Vivienne / June 20, 2023
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Daughts and her Hubs entrusted their two girls to our care – for four days and three nights – The baby Eleanor is 6 months and her sister Olivia is two years. I had cleared ...
Vivienne / April 15, 2023
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We’ve had a dry spring at Footlights. It seems that when the forecast is promising rain our little neck of the woods gets nothing so I have to drag my hose around my beds and ...
Vivienne / April 11, 2023
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The week after Easter Hubs and I took a little getaway to a part of America I’ve never been, the Carolinas. After a quick flight we waited almost 3 hours at Charleston airport for ...
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
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
