Vivienne / October 6, 2024
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I know only too well the sneaky touch of the enemy. Like a wasp that flies past ...
Vivienne / October 3, 2023
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Our film-maker son’s birthday is today. Born a few days before our first wedding anniversary there were no knowing looks from family members (back then they watched the first few ...
Vivienne / September 18, 2023
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Footlights officially has three bedrooms, it’s on the Zillow description. But since only Hubs and I live here two of them are, to coin a new phrase, ‘flex spaces’. ...
Vivienne / August 20, 2023
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My blue eyed cowboy and I each walked 200 miles while we were in London; we always clock on the steps as we hurry from one place to the next to pack in as much as we can in our beloved ...
Vivienne / August 18, 2023
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My blue-eyed cowboy and I walked two hundred miles in 32 days. We were in London, we didn’t hike or go for intentional forced marches (as my son calls them) the mileage ...
Vivienne / August 10, 2023
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One of the jaunts we took was to the city which is just a walk down Victoria street. We passed Westminster Cathedral and stopped in to light a candle for Desi, a baby struggling for his ...
Vivienne / August 5, 2023
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Kathy, my friend from Highcliffe days, and I went for our customary long walk when I visited London this past summer. This time we opted to stroll along the canal from Tower Hamlets to ...
Vivienne / August 1, 2023
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We were supposed to go out with my brother after visiting friends in Highgate but instead, it was raining and I left poor, sick Hubs in bed to walk my favourite park with Vincent and ...
Vivienne / July 26, 2023
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There was a minor hiccup in our travels but first we went to see friends in Highgate who Hubs has known for donkey’s years. They are both artists so we usually buy a piece or two ...
Vivienne / July 24, 2023
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The county of Kent is known as The Garden of England. Lots of fruit and veg grown there as well as gorgeous landscaped properties, flower allotments, neighbourhood gardens and parks, ...
Vivienne / July 20, 2023
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For the first time in twelve years we took our annual trip to London in the summer. This time there wasn’t any pressure to wrap up loose ends; there were no houses to clear out; ...
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
