Vivienne / September 18, 2023
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Footlights officially has three bedrooms, it’s on the Zillow description. But ...
Vivienne / September 17, 2014
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When I was eight I wrote a poem while sitting in the garden with my mother. We were in London and sitting in the garden didn’t happen very often because 1) My father preferred us ...
Vivienne / September 15, 2014
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My grandmother, Sarah Agnes, was a feisty character. During the war, (that’s WWII) she bought up houses in London when they were going cheap because of the bombings. She was a ...
Vivienne / July 14, 2014
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Last week, 25 years ago, I was ready for hubs to come home from the Bee-Gee’s tour and help me out for the last few days of carrying my Perriwinkle around! I was so excited, she was to ...
Vivienne / May 12, 2014
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We shared shrimp poutine and a salad with hot pretzel bread...scarfing the lot at. A few snippets of news were exchanged in the noisy environment and comments about food, beer and ...
Vivienne / March 14, 2014
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I keep records of birthdays in my calendars and diaries, and along the names I write the age they will be that year and bracket them. Daddy would have been 89 today. Daffodils will ...
Vivienne / March 3, 2014
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Today is my rock climbing son’s first birthday… as a married man! I was still a working Mum when this little bundle of joy joined us. I’d caught the ‘flu and it ...
Vivienne / February 28, 2014
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Continued privations at the end of the war made comments like,
"You'd never think we were the victors," commonplace on the rubble-filled streets and in the empty shops.
Vivienne / February 26, 2014
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"You're telling me I have to be without my phone for THREE HOURS?" she exploded. (In ever such a lady-like way I'm sure)
Vivienne / February 21, 2014
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I miss my kitchen where I raised so much more than a few loaves of bread.
Vivienne / February 14, 2014
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Here’s my Valentine’s wish to the family I love. Not only for a day but forever!
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
