Please indulge me........ can we have a Christmas Round Robin thread?

[Chottie]

I loved reading about all your round robins last Christmas so much

Worked constantly because of COVID.I’m physically and mentally exhausted. Cannot be arsed about Xmas and usually I’m really into Xmas. I want to forget 2020 it’s been ghastly

is this Christmas round Robins we've received or our own?

I hate round robins they are Braggy and inane. confected self congratulatory prose

I hoped this was the thread for the fake round robin letters....

Maybe we should make up really wanky ones here in the spirit of some awful ones received in previous years.

Maybe we should make up really wanky ones here in the spirit of some awful ones received in previous years
That's what I was hoping might be in this thread. We don't tend to get regular ones.

As children and teens we had many fond evenings laughing at some of the letters my parents received.

Hello Everyone
Hasn’t 2020 been a hoot, who’d have known the children would look so delightful in masks, or that I’d get to show off all my le crueset as I banged my colour coordinated pots for the nhs peeps. All the neighbours admired my clafoutis dish and gosh what a bang it made. I commissioned an artist to draw rainbows and I told the teachers the kids had drawn them. Got to show all my house and the extension as I did zoom meetings and let the camera linger.

@HeelsHandbagPerfumeCoffee

I hate round robins they are Braggy and inane. confected self congratulatory prose

Well, yes, they are composed and circulated by people who are bereft of the slightest tinge of irony. That’s why their inane tales of Brian and Josh yomping up Munroes and Jess’s joint first class honours in playing the harpsichord and criminology and the jolly japes surrounding the squirrel infestation in the attic of number 42 are so funny.

A childhood friend of my father’s used to send an annual screed full of exclamation marks about exactly how much his holiday had cost him, how many pounds he’d put on (he used to weigh himself just before he left and on return) and how much money he’d brought back to the bureau de change afterwards, and how much discount he’d got on a new freezer. One year it had an entire paragraph on the precise numbers of dog droppings he’d counted between his hotel and the central train station in Geneva.

I do a Christmas round robin, although is quite jokey and not at all wanky or long!

Of course they are wanky,it’s the self congratulatory mewing and gushing praise

I haven't got any good ones yet this year stamps foot. There's one we especially enjoy which has about 75 teeny pictures on two sides of A4.

@Kippure you’re post made me laugh, and yes v accurate

I would love to send one that just says 'this page is left intentionally blank'.

The one I remember most is a work acquaintance from years ago who described her social life as a leading light in 'Leicester's astronomical scene.'