So... who's up for a Janet and John Christmas round robin letter?

[SophiaLovesSummer]

If there's a thread already please point me to it as couldn't find it using search but it is now nearly that special time of year where we all want to know about John's attic growing antics and Janet's bunions and their DC's wildly over the top achievements this year! Have been some utter corkers in the past, will try and see if can link to them

I'm up for doing one for someone and looking for someone to do my DSis's please? Here, have some and as thanks in advance...

We used to get one from someone we didn’t know in greece. It was addressed to our address but a different name. We bought the property as a new build so no idea where it was actually meant to go. Now we’ve moved i’ll Miss it.

I asked a colleague to hand write and post from her town (an hour away) a card to my DB.
Happy Christmas David and Mabel,
We loved your company on the cruise and will be accepting your kind offer, we are so looking forward to seeing you on Boxing Day.
Lots of love Elvis and Priscilla

Found one!
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/Christmas/2213210-Janet-Roy-mystery-round-robin?msgid=50190132

Think that'll link to it, AndHarry posted there's not far into the thread and it was a good one.

Count me in

I've been thinking about this for the past few days, I'm in!

I'll happily write one 😂

Every year I see this this thread I want to say that I think it's a really mean trick to play on someone.
But I shut up because it's popular.

Anyway I'm saying it now and then I'll leave you all to it. But if it's someone who will genuinely worry and be bothered by it then don't do it to them. Thinking of elderly people who take letters like this more seriously.

Ok, said my bit, as you were.

@EnidButton - fair point but I think you have to trust that those of us who would do it know we are not doing it to anyone elderly/vulnerable/w MH issues but rather the sound (positively fucking robust) of mind and SO certain of both their views and their place in this world. As a good EG... my sister literally centres herself upon other folks dramas, she is also a raging hypochondriac and nothing, literally nothing, that you genuinely have wrong can go untopped by some new, utterly outta the blue, ill of hers All the while acting like Hyacinth even tho way too young for it.

So I'm up for both writing one (or many if required) from Surrey or Central London/W1 and I'm bagsy calling dibs on UtterlyDesperate - @UtterlyDesperate from Liverpool to be more precise - to please do mine?

Desperately unfortunately, and due to a thread a thousand miles removed from this one (frankly one which serves to remind us to grab our joy where we can), I now have cause to name change but I'm gonna DM @UtterlyDesperate and also keep a watching brief on thread. Please, please can someone post some bodies of content on here from linky above?

And feel free DM me if you want me to do one. My sis is perfect as has a truly horrific habit of 'friending' my friends (from all necks of the woods) and also work contacts (this is hyper embarrassing as my work is in a fairly high profile field - EG she literally DM'd Dom Joly saying she was Sophia's sister and loved his work so we 'are already friends' ) AND is the centre of not just her universe but anyone else's too.

Quite literally, a Janet and John (or Roy!) letter to her from Liverpool won't remotely disturb her other than the head scratching about where precisely she 'knows' them from. Ergo, @EnidButton I promise I hear you and I equally promise I wouldn't remotely be part of this on anyone vulnerable - but the arrogant/those who centre themselves in other people's dramas/those who friend your friends when they don't know them from Adam but they want their friends to see they are friends with a 'famous person' = fair game IMHO

I'm in the Midlands btw so anything I write will have a NW Midlands postmark.

I'll happily write one! Would be postmarked Bedfordshire.

Will have a think if I have any potential recipients and post separately.

I'm in London, I'd like one from London or Sheffield, please.

Ohhhh, I've wanted to send a Janet and Roy for ages!
I'm in Scotland so can either write one or forward one on.
I'd love someone to send mine to London please.
Feel free to PM.

@EnidButtom
Every year I see this this thread I want to say that I think it's a really mean trick to play on someone. But I shut up because it's popular.

Yay, it's not just me! Fun and games for the person who's done the "joke" but that sounds like the kind of thing that would really have me wracking my brains and have me worrying, and going over past people and conversations, and my brain does that enough without someone doing it to me as a joke!
You wouldn't necessarily know it either as I try not to broadcast it.

Sorry, that was to @EnidButton not buttom lol

I'm on the south coast, near Bognor and Chichester. If anyone would like a letter from there? I'd like one from anywhere outside of Sussex.

I'd love to send one from Dorset
I was on one of these threads a few years ago and a MNer and I exchanged details and we sent cards to our parents for a couple of years.
The truth only came out when my DDad died unexpectedly and DM was fretting how she should tell Janet and Roy- she had no idea who they were which surely meant they were DDads friends, particularly as they wrote such lovely, informative cards.
'Twas an awkward moment for a while but she sees the funny side now though she's probably written me out of her will

We once got an invitation to a weekend houseparty from someone we didn't know. We didn't go (or RSVP) but we spent ages trying to work out if it was someone we had met briefly, or whether it was intended for our in laws. Must be similar if you get a Janet and Roy.

This thread has just made me think of the late CatThiefKeith . She loved the Janet and Roy letters.

You have to give your relative/friends name and address to a stranger on the internet? Bah humbug

Brilliant. So glad I've been pointed in the direction of this thread.
I do love a good Janet and Roy thread. It's become a Christmas tradition to find time and go through everyone's letters whilst tucking into a mince pie and Bailey's. I f8nd them bloody hilarious!!

Catzpyjamas
I think of CatThiefKeith often. She loved the Janet and Roy threads and many of her posts were hilarious.

I get one sent to my DParents. They know that I am behind it (because it's right up my alley) and it's become an in-joke that we never refer to directly every year. :)

I will happily send one from the Isle of Wight. Unfortunately it will get a Portsmouth post mark.