Round Robin emails......

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I want your opinion on them

I have a friend, we worked together in the 80s, had children together in in the 90s, who then, with her family, emigrated, first to Australia, then to NZ. We met up several times, and wrote to each other regularly.

Come the 21st century, I have tried, over the years to keep contact with her. I know our lives have taken different paths, but I did think I was more than an acquaintance - and yet, I seem to have been relegated to the 'round Robin recipient'. I used to laugh at them in the past, she has written this missives for many years, and they do fall into the RR cliche of how well her, her husband and (now grown-up) children are doing.

I think I am just p-off as I wrote to her (well emailed) in November, a specific email for her and her family, and it seems she can't be bothered emailing back, but has just sent the annual 'how wonderful we are' email.

So, shall I just give up spending time writing specific letters to her, she doesn't seem to be interested enough to contact me, or....what could I say that is a polite way of telling her that this is not on, or is it really worth it? Perhaps I have answered my question.

Your thoughts/experiences of these round Robin/bloody emails please......

Always good for a laugh. Apart from that, always seems a bit duty driven.

Send her an email telling her your 8 year old has just finished her thesis on political tensions in the Middle East.

Omg do people even say round robin anymore?!

We got one a few years ago, telling us that their son was having a hard time choosing between Oxford and Cambridge. The following year's said that he had 'decided to choose Exeter.' We're still laughing.

I love Round Robin letters. It’s a way of catching up with news (and pictures) with people not on social media, and who you don’t see regularly (all at all for various reasons such as distance). I

At Christmas, there’s enough to do without writing individual letters/emails to everyone.

Maybe she didn’t get your email, it went into spam, got missed amongst others, not saved by her etc, and she did contact you, just not in the way you anticipated.

😂😂😂

I like these kind of catch ups. One acquaintance has stopped doing them and I miss it.
If she didn't reply to your email and hasn't reached out outside of this group thing, then just don't bother emailing. If she cares enough she'll email you, but I think her actions speak loud and clear - she's moved on.

I'd love a RR!
Never sent one and haven't received one for years.

Pretentious and annoying

Universally dreadful.

I have a cousin who does the RR - even death is announced in an upbeat breezy way. They are a dying art form.
agree you have been relegated though. I’d send Christmas cards for sentimental purposes but that bout it unless she specifically responds to you.

I'm not posh enough to know anyone who'd send a RR. They'd be full of job hatred, money woes and trips to Tesco

Cringey and embarrassing. I genuinely don’t know how anyone does them with a straight face! Weirdly enough l found one from about 10 years ago, in my very cluttered email the other day and it has not aged well. Her spelling, punctuation and grammar were especially bad

Oh people do.

I get one every year addressed to the previous owner of my house. It is so cringingly smug and hilarious in a slow car crash kind of way. I sometimes think it is a parody such is the lack of self awareness as to how the writer comes across.

"Lukas is thriving at school and has just passed his level 9 violin. He started Swahili this term and was made captain of the rugby team"

Now I want you to write one!

I love Christmas Round Robins, and wish I got more of them.

I've only ever sent them twice, couple of recipients said they liked the catch up. If the others were cringing, they were too polite to say so. And I'm not exactly inundating people

@DanseAvecLesLoups - yup that's parody - the highest music grade is an 8

I’ve never received one so feel as I’ve missed out! Jeremy Vine was talking about them on his show a few days ago.

I got one this year inside a Christmas card it was so exciting! Honestly with the price of stamps these days it seems a shame just to send a card with a generic greeting in. Bring back the round robins I say!

My grandparents used to get a few of these every Christmas, usually from people they knew through church who'd moved away (or gone evangelising abroad!). They were always (unintentionally) entertaining.

We also used to have some family friends who just sent a hand-scrawled photocopied list of all their holidays/trips that year, with a few lines summarising each one - that was baffling. Along the lines of "Spain - bridge with Carol and Rupert. Walked to village each day, met Frank (St Albans), ate oysters. Weather dry, no iron in room. Highlands - food poisoning, birdwatching, broken heater in caravan. Dog came too." I bloody wish I'd kept them all!!

the only one we’ve had was from someone in DHs work and it was all about how much money they were spending on a house. It was weird and braggy.

One particularly posh mum announced to me on the school run that she was doing 'round robins' about her sons upcoming 5th birthday party way too busy and important to be sending 99p home bargains invites out. That was the first time I've ever heard the phrase until today and it did make make me chuckle!

My mother received a six page one today which was so appallingly hilarious that I think the woman who wrote it must be deranged.

I love a round Robin tucked inside a Christmas card. I read them all avidly when I go to my mum's. Brilliantly entertaining!

My in-laws send an email round robin every Christmas. I quite like it :) It helps that FIL is a good writer and rather witty so they do make for a diverting read!