Christmas Newsletters

I found an old one in the Christmas decorations, clearly kept because it was so awful, written by the husband: just one long boast about him and his holidays from beginning to end, with disparaging comments about everyone else.
That marriage is now dead and he has moved on to pastures new, and younger; how she stayed with him so long I really don't know.

We used to get one from some rather "alternative " friends, one year it was about him changing his first name because his guru had told him to, and it also told us about the crop circle seminars that they had been to!

And. . . one we had told us in great details about the pet cats and rabbits too! I ask you!!

We had one which made us laugh. As well as the letter about loads of people we don’t know, there was a price list and vacancy chart for their holiday cottage !!

I really like these letters. I do have a number of people that I am fond of, who have moved away, and I like to know how they are doing - I may not be greatly involved in their lives, but enjoy the news.
Because they are people I like, they aren't these 'boastful' missives - we only ever had one like that - from an old colleague of DH's and we dropped them.
I was quite sad when a few friends thought, because of attitudes like these, that they shouldn't send 'round robins' and scribbled something hastily instead. I was glad when they go re-instated and I could read them nicely and clearly.
Seems like I'm in a minority, but I have been greatly blessed to be a small part of these people's lives and love getting the news.