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 / July 31, 2012
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Hands up those of you who clean their house before the maid comes? Silly aren’t we? I also make sure my house has a quick once over before going on holiday because after a stress ...
Vivienne / July 26, 2012
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Yoga is all about peaceful spaces. In London I had a pleasing place where I could fix my dristi. In Dallas I used to have several potential spots where my gaze could settle without my ...
Vivienne / July 24, 2012
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We stepped out of our taxi after travelling for two days and saw our zoo keeper son, in our garage, bent double inside his car with the vacuum. He unfolded himself and stood up to wave ...
Vivienne / July 23, 2012
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We decided to go and see our final musical in the West End of London. Travelling with my youngest is an experience, she always has a malady that slows her down. On Saturday it was a ...
Vivienne / July 18, 2012
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Malia and her dad went to the Warner Brother’s studios at Watford Junction. A special father/daughter outing. They spun round the Harry Potter exhibit in a couple of hours; ...
Vivienne / July 17, 2012
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When we met Malia from college last week it was the last time she had to make the journey from Leigh-on-Sea. She wanted to see the Olympic rings suspended from Tower Bridge and as we ...
Vivienne / July 12, 2012
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I’ve mentioned Beckenham Place Park often this year, its ancient woodlands, carpeted with bluebells in the Spring and now stinging nettles and flowering blackberry bushes ...
Vivienne / July 11, 2012
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This morning I was wide awake at 420am and decided the time was right to get a recording of the dawn chorus, which may sound the same in America but I would know otherwise. I slipped ...
Vivienne / July 10, 2012
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I visited a side of the family I knew only through the family grapevine of gossip and news. Years ago accounts of their exploits would reach me and my brother through letters, sometimes ...
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
