The Christmas letters have started arriving!

Perfect antidote to these annoying letters which I'm glad to say I no longer get.

Speaking to someone yesterday who said she still sends one to family friends even though she hasn't seen them since she got married- which was 30 years ago!

Bonkers.

LOLOLOL ~~~ Good one!!

* Don't expect any Christmas letters or cards from Canada. Our postal workers have been on strike going on four weeks now.

I will be sending a lot more e-cards this year! [maybe a blessing, eh!! ]

That’s hilarious RosiesMaw2 . I can’t stand round robin letters, they portray a perfect happy family with no negatives . I also find them impersonal.
I tend to write a personal note in cards to people I don’t see often .

Never received one or sent one. Think I may be alone on this but perhaps a good thing lol

Each to their own Romola I don't object to round robins per se. Just when people use them to boast about their families and themselves without showing the slightest interest in the recipient.

Brilliant -the first time ever I've enjoyed a Christmas letter

Well, I'm someone who for the last 30 years has sent a round robin. And so do many of our friends whom we see only rarely. We love getting their news and they say they like hearing from us - well, just me now. So there!

I have never written "round robin" My friends who live away are all different types of people and have a variety of hobbies, it is so lazy not to write individual letters, not at at friendly.

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Somewhere on the shelf I have one of Simon Hoggart's books, if anyone needs a bit of help with their Christmas letter-writing, I can thoroughly recommend

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Good choice on earning more as a nail technician, be less stressful plus your clients will love you.
So relieved Maw, to read your family is just like ours x

So relieved Maw, to read your family is just like ours x

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Even down to the same names, innit! 😯

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You have a very interesting entrepreneurial family there. No holding back!
I've never sent one of those letters, and only receive one or two.

For the second year running my late husband’s cousin sent a newsy letter about all sorts of unrelated people, with not a mention of him, even the year he died. She is no longer getting a card from me.

Great Stuff, Maw . I groaned when my first card plopped on the mat this year.

It was from DH’s cousin, his wife writes them and as usual it was a long list of ailment's, marriage break ups and other disasters that have befallen them this year.

Two words were missing…one was Christmas and the other was Happy!

Brilliant RosiesMaw2 I have been so tempted to send something like that myself.
We have one acquaintance who sends the details of all the good works she has done for the community over the last year but never asks how we are.

Oh, I'd choose Nuclear Physics, no contest. Build my own warhead, so I'll be protected when the rest of the world goes kablooey. As long as I unleash mine before they unleash theirs, what can possibly go wrong?

If I still sent cards think I’d be tempted to copy your letter & send it on! Ha ha!
(We usually receive at least 2 ‘ bragging type ‘ news letters).

Good choice on earning more as a nail technician, be less stressful plus your clients will love you.
So relieved Maw, to read your family is just like ours x

Well Maw I wouldn’t worry too much about Darryl, he prolly had conjugating rights, so unless he has one of them pattern nitty tests his missis should keep schtum.

RosiesMaw2
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In current parlance, Wicked!
Had to go back and read it twice.

Brilliant !!

MissInterpreted

Brilliant! I get one from a cousin every year and this year, she mentioned that her husband had just retired. So later that evening, I thought I'd google his retirement and see if I could find the newspaper article she'd mentioned in the letter. Well, let's just say my google search revealed a major skeleton in the closet she didn't mention in the letter!

The internet is for ever! 😀

Just what I needed this morning, Maw! . You didn’t tell us about your new XL Bully dog fur baby, though! 🐶

That is fantastic Maw.
It wasn't very realistic though - all the letters we get are all about the amazing exploits they have been up to and how wonderfully the AC are doing!
We got one one year telling us that Sally had died and how sad they were. I couldn't think who Sally was until at the end of the letter they mentioned it was the dog!!

We used to get just two.
One was just lovely, honest down to earth facts about AC , GC and new arrivals. No boasting no embellishments just family news.
The other however was such a laugh, both into local politics, you would have guessed just a step away from the Cabinet Office.
On the police committee, JP , chairmen of almost everything.
Avid attenders of Party conferences and hobnobbing with everyone.
Cruises were commented on in detail.
My H used to keep them all in a file, I think he read them when he wanted a chuckle.

Brilliant! 👏👏🎄