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 / September 25, 2011
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Our youngest daughter visited us today. She had called, well, skyped, last weekend for an hour and said she wanted to come home to see us…could she? What a question! We spent the ...
Vivienne / September 24, 2011
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I was having a conversation over fish and chips in Whitstable, overlooking the estuary. I could see the lights of Leigh on Sea, it had only been a week since we’d been on the ...
Vivienne / September 21, 2011
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I hate to report it but we are losing nearly 4 minutes of daylight a day at the moment, a couple of minutes in the morning and a couple in the evening. By the time my son arrives in ...
Vivienne / September 20, 2011
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I scrawled across my postcards from Rome, “Nothing’s changed!” It was supposed to be a joke because there’s not a lot anyone can do to a ruin. They’re ...
Vivienne / September 17, 2011
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Our hotel in Rome was about ten minutes from the Coliseum. As we walked down to the main piazza our street became busier and busier with cars, people, outdoor cafes and trolleys. The ...
Vivienne / September 16, 2011
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Join me today for an encore show where you will hear the second of a series of experts especially invited to help homeschool students plan for their future and choose a career that ...
Vivienne / September 14, 2011
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The plan is to sell the flat. There have been lots of plans in the last three months that have fallen through so my faith in plans is not very strong at the moment. I was talking to my ...
Vivienne / September 14, 2011
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We were packing for Rome and the guide book cautioned us not to wear anything above the knee or sleeveless in the churches. Not a problem for me, my days of mini skirts and spaghetti ...
Vivienne / September 13, 2011
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Hedgerows date back to Roman times. The Romans planted these thorny based living fences that make wonderful nesting places for birds while succeeding in keeping predators and prowlers ...
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
