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 / 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 22, 2012
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Today hubs came out with me for a walk. “Are you wearing your long johns?” he asked. Well, I’m English and long johns are part of my underwear from December until ...
Vivienne / February 20, 2012
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My daughter was so happy today she had to reach us to share her news. She tried my iPod first but I wasn’t there, I’d gone walking. Then she tried Skype, but I wasn’t ...
Vivienne / February 19, 2012
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It never ceases to amaze me that for someone so quick and savvy with her texting, i- messaging, downloading music and skype applications, when asked to help me with a basic iPod ...
Vivienne / February 15, 2012
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This is how today with our eight year old went. He was up at 7am and when I went into the kitchen at 715 he dogged me, bright as a button. He looked as if he’d been up ...
Vivienne / February 13, 2012
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A representative from a Christian charity for the poor came to speak at our church. She gave us statistics about the numbers of poor children in ours and the surrounding parishes. I ...
Vivienne / February 9, 2012
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Our church in Texas is not a parish church. It does not sit in the middle of a village or town as a reminder of holier days when it was the centre of the people’s lives. It is ...
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
