Vivienne / September 18, 2023
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Footlights officially has three bedrooms, it’s on the Zillow description. But ...
Vivienne / August 14, 2020
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I tend to my thirsty and rather impressive Zinnia beds still beautiful at the start of August, having bloomed since the middle of April. “Anyone can grow Zinnia,” Daughts ...
Vivienne / August 6, 2020
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Our bridge replacement is almost complete. The contractor, who has looked after our dirt road since the late 90’s, started work during the second week in July to clear out the old ...
Vivienne / July 31, 2020
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This cat is a piece of work. I call him a dog when he pulls one of his pranks…just to insult him…but since he growls at strange vehicles pulling into our circular driveway ...
Vivienne / July 29, 2020
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For some reason my desk is a favourite lounging spot for two of my cats; Madge loves to stretch his full length along the top shelf, knocking things off or scooting them over to make ...
Vivienne / July 3, 2020
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When I first hosted parties at Footlights I described the lead-up to our property as, “Downhill, across a bridge, first on the right.” Of course, I know there’s a ...
Vivienne / June 29, 2020
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Continuing the McNeny Picnic Tradition we met the perfect little family outside in a deserted park in Farmersville for a quasi-socially-distant birthday celebration. We spread a quilt ...
Vivienne / June 16, 2020
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The phrase ‘New Normal’ has been adopted to remind us that after the pandemic, when a vaccination is available, our lives will not go back to the way they were. This has ...
Vivienne / June 12, 2020
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I’m a list maker… I love seeing the things I’ve done marked through with a pen. I manipulate my list so that I’m not left at the end of the day or week staring ...
Vivienne / May 27, 2020
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Hubs and I have led atypical lives together. 9-5 was not the norm for us. There was nothing steady and predictable about our day-to-day. Jobs and financial security weren’t 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.
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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
