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 / December 22, 2011
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My youngest daughter was home with us for a few days. She is back in Leigh-on-Sea to honour her work commitment so she can pay her debts. In this cold and frosty weather I admire her. ...
Vivienne / December 21, 2011
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Trying to buy a 60 or 100 watt light bulb here is not easy. They can’t be had at the grocery store where we do most of our shopping. The hardware shop sells them but ...
Vivienne / December 21, 2011
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It is the Winter Solstice today At last. The shortest day is upon us which means? From tomorrow onwards the days start to get longer, imperceptively so, but longer all the same! The ...
Vivienne / December 19, 2011
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From where we live I can hear children playing. There are several schools in the immediate vicinity, I counted them once, sixteen to be exact. Each has an application and CV from me; ...
Vivienne / December 18, 2011
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One of the items we can’t buy here is rubbing alcohol. We asked at the counter of Boots the Chemist and the sales assistant told us, “You won’t find rubbing alcohol in liquid form ...
Vivienne / December 15, 2011
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Moby decided it was high time he brought his family a treat. He’d found the perfect gift. Something he would love if given to him. Always a safe bet that, to give a gift you ...
Vivienne / December 13, 2011
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Tavelling and walking around London without children I find I have become every young person’s mother. I smile, I nod, I pass a comment if we are sitting somewhere, about a book they ...
Vivienne / December 12, 2011
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Looking outside this morning I saw a clear sky; bright sunshine leaned against my windows showing up every smear from not cleaning with vinegar and newspaper. My face glowed as I dried ...
Vivienne / December 7, 2011
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Today is Pearl Harbour Day. I asked hubs if he was going to get upset when no-one wished him happy Pearl Harbour Day and he laughed. Probably this is not a day widely known about or ...
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
