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 / August 25, 2011
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I used to own a restaurant in Guernsey a channel island between England and France. It is a twee little place only 5 miles by 7 miles by 9 miles and gets all the weather heaven cares ...
Vivienne / August 24, 2011
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The month is August and one should be forgiven for expecting plenty of opportunities to bask in the rays of potentially long summer days. But not this year! At least not in England. ...
Vivienne / August 23, 2011
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The rain this summer has been so fine it can’t be clearly seen through a house window. Unless you suspect it’s raining and look really closely you’d just think it was ...
Vivienne / August 22, 2011
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Today we went to Kew Gardens. We took the train to Victoria and rode for twelve stops on the tube. Twelve stops takes about 24 minutes. The calculation always works out! When we drew ...
Vivienne / August 21, 2011
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Paris (France not Texas) is a romantic city, I don’t think anybody would contest that observation, right? My second date with my future Hubs was to Paris. My daughter, when we ...
Vivienne / August 18, 2011
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Our living room has two lovely cream leather sofas sitting on a carpet of warm aubergine, surrounded by matching furniture. If you know us at all you will understand that matching is ...
Vivienne / August 16, 2011
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My brother asked me to keep his two boys this week. They are on summer holiday and have decided that they no longer need to go to summer camp so their divorced parents are shuffling ...
Vivienne / August 15, 2011
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My youngest daughter was standing in our lounge doorway yesterday morning, she was telling me what she and her boyfriend were going to be doing on this, the last day of his visit. Her ...
Vivienne / August 14, 2011
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We went to a seaside town last week, quite reminiscent of where my parents used to live, only larger. Where there were a half a dozen fishing boats left stranded in the bay when the ...
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
