Vivienne / September 18, 2023
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Footlights officially has three bedrooms, it’s on the Zillow description. But ...
Vivienne / August 18, 2023
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My blue-eyed cowboy and I walked two hundred miles in 32 days. We were in London, we didn’t hike or go for intentional forced marches (as my son calls them) the mileage ...
Vivienne / July 20, 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 / 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 ...
Vivienne / March 15, 2023
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I’ve had lower back pain since my mid to late twenties. Everything to do with over flexibility, high arabesques, dazzling contretemps, amazingly flat turn outs and a lot of peer ...
Vivienne / January 4, 2023
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In December we had some more visiting animals. This time a small herd of miniature horse. Oh my gosh, how adorable! They weren’t interested in carrots, although I did offer, and ...
Vivienne / October 9, 2022
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Slowly God is returning my time to me and I’m faithfully loosening my grip. Subbing at school is dwindling and there are whole months when I feel as though I’m getting lost ...
Vivienne / September 15, 2022
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The time had come for us to re-decorate. I don’t quite know why we chose to repaint the kitchen; Perhaps because it was August and we were having summer-holiday-fever. We wanted ...
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
