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 / September 15, 2024
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This week the temperatures have been very pleasant in the morning. I find I am almost frisky when the air is brisk and I have to wear a sweater to keep the chill out for the first few ...
Vivienne / August 19, 2024
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Walking first thing in the morning is compelling. At 6am I close my eyes and swing my legs out of bed sliding on my flip-flops and unplugging my phone, tricking my brain into thinking ...
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 / July 17, 2023
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The landmark birthday party lasted a few hours and was typically English. For those of you who don’t know what that means, dancing happens – immediately! Even in private ...
Vivienne / March 15, 2023
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I’ve had lower back pain since my mid to late twenties. Everything to do with over flexibility, high arabesques, dazzling contretemps, amazingly flat turn outs and a lot of peer ...
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
