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 / October 6, 2011
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My zoo keeper son is here and not content to sit and be, as we’ve been, he wants to explore. “Where are we going today, Mum?” are his first words on entering the kitchen for his coffee ...
Vivienne / October 5, 2011
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On the first day of our son’s visit, the day he landed, we managed to contain his excursion to the high street; a simple outing with great rewards. He explored the shelves of food ...
Vivienne / October 4, 2011
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We shared the journey to Heathrow with thousands of others; most of them on our train, or so it appeared to my unsociable self at that ungodly hour. We had to stand all the way to ...
Vivienne / October 3, 2011
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Today is my oldest son’s birthday and I really don’t want to think of how old he is because that only makes me feel old and my Hubs has told me stop thinking about feeling old… When he ...
Vivienne / October 1, 2011
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Happy New Month! We are on day four of a heat wave. Not having had any summer to speak of, compared to the flaming hot conditions endured by my Texas family at home, this late burst of ...
Vivienne / September 30, 2011
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Our daughter set the downhearted tone for the day. Daughters and sons and various other loved ones have that knack. She sent her Dad an email saying she wasn’t having a good day. This ...
Vivienne / September 29, 2011
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I finished Margaret Mitchell’s, Gone With The Wind, last night. I think I’m a fast and furious reader but I would sit down for an hour and devour hundreds of words only to discover I’d ...
Vivienne / September 28, 2011
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My parents’ furniture has gone. Packed neatly into a bashed up moving van, hired by our buyer out of the local rag, “Sight unseen,” she assured us just in case we thought ...
Vivienne / September 27, 2011
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I am an out of the box thinker. As a homeschooler that statement should really go without saying. For several months I’ve been having a really difficult time with my blog. Every time I ...
Vivienne / September 26, 2011
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Before I gross anyone out I need to put a disclaimer here. I do not have a bathroom cupboard or cabinet in the tiny space where a tub, a sink and a commode co-habit. There is barely ...
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
