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MawtheMerrier Fri 02-Dec-22 20:02:06

My heart sank. My first Christmas letter.
OK happy (ish) to know that friends from all those years ago at university are still at least together and alive but as so often happens with these epistles which are meant for a wide audience, the references to second cousin so-and-so go right over my head. Likewise how their grandchildren get to their new school since they moved (15 minutes in case you are interested)
Oh and the Buckingham Palace Garden Party that was cancelled .
But what really gets me is the need some writers seem to have to comment on the political or economic situation.
This isn’t the place for a “review of the year” . If I want informed comment I’ll read The Economist or The New Statesmen, thank you . I don’t need the view from Little Snoring on Sea.
In fact I am so agog with indifference, I don’t know if I’ll even bother sending them a Christmas card.
They must be confusing me with someone who gives a sh**.

Iam64 Sat 03-Dec-22 18:42:09

1summer 😂

rafichagran Sat 03-Dec-22 18:55:29

I feel left out. I have never recieved or sent a round robin Christmas card. From what I have read here I here I hope I never do.

MawtheMerrier Sat 03-Dec-22 19:42:21

@ Isummer - that says it all! grinwink grin

Urmstongran Sat 03-Dec-22 20:29:47

^ I don't think some individuals realise that, apart from major events, the minutiae of most people's lives are quite boring.^

Note to self - I must remember ‘less is more’ when posting on the GM thread and soops Dickens!

I do tend to witter on a bit ... 😁😁😁

henetha Sat 03-Dec-22 20:34:17

It was before social media, Gagajo.

Wyllow3 Sat 03-Dec-22 20:50:24

Cabbie21

I much prefer to have a letter( personalised preferably) than merely a card with a signature. If that is all I hear, year after year, I feel there isn’t much point.
I get about ten Round Robins each year, mostly on email now, and they are all interesting and relevant. There is no boasting, quite a few disasters. The only one I hate starts Dear ( blank).

More or less that, maybe 8? I write a short basic letter online then vary each one as appropriate plus some pix.

Friends plus one family member am fond of but lives in NI.

I care about them and want to know what's happening but they are honest joys and sorrows.

Callistemon21 Sat 03-Dec-22 20:52:13

1summer you win first prize!! Wonderful 😂
🥇

Dickens Sat 03-Dec-22 21:27:09

Urmstongran

^ I don't think some individuals realise that, apart from major events, the minutiae of most people's lives are quite boring.^

Note to self - I must remember ‘less is more’ when posting on the GM thread and soops Dickens!

I do tend to witter on a bit ... 😁😁😁

... not at all Urms!

We all 'witter' on GN - usually about a specific issue which someone has raised, and that's a different thing altogether - we're kind of comparing notes about something that interests us.

Witter away! smile

SueDonim Sat 03-Dec-22 21:32:57

You should have invited yourself to go and stay in those people’s holiday home in Cyprus, 1summer! I’d loved to have seen their faces when strangers turned up. grin

We have friends dotted all round the UK and abroad so some years I do a RR letter. I used to get quite a few, too. There were two stand-outs each year, one from someone whose family always had a whole host of astonishing diseases to complain about and someone else who thought that everyone would be interested in the nano-seconds shaved off their marathon running times and the minutiae of the husband’s competitive sea-fishing hobby. I quite miss getting those letters now! grin

AreWeThereYet Sat 03-Dec-22 21:46:18

1summer 😅😅

We don't send any but receive one from a cousin we don't see or hear from often. We get on very well and maybe speak once or twice a year. Have to say though not a Hermione in sight, no conservatory building or house decorating, just general information about what the various family members have been up to including a few funnies and some future plans. Always nice to see future plans from somebody recovering from lung cancer.