Any good Round Robins yet?

[UnquietDad]

aka Boast By Post.

I'm sure they will start to arrive in the next couple of weeks. All those Tamaras doing Grade 8 violin, Jocastas going to work on kibbutzim (look, I know the proper plural!) while passing their advanced scuba diving exams, and Tarquins passing the entrance exam for St Nob's.

The funniest thing is that the friend who unfailingly does the best one and has us (unintentionally) snorting with laughter has just had an affair, split up with hubby and moved out. So theirs should be a great one this year.

Ha-I am waiting for my cousins, should be here any day now, their children are a couple of years older than mine, but they still manage the 'Oh, isn't DD2 reading yet? Ours were at her age'

My favourite was the one they sent 3 years ago which started 'What a fantastic year...' My Grandmother had died in the August

Oooh oooh I can't wait. My parents get some fab ones - the people who live on a smallholding and write us letters telling us in intimate detail about the fate of each and every sheep and goat. Ended up one year trying to work out if the offspring described had been produced by their daughter or their cow.

Yes, you get the ones with Binky and Bufty mentioned and you aren't sure if they are pet names (i.e. names of the tortoise/rabbit), pet names (for humans) or some aged aunt.

They usually make me quite glad I've only one kid to manage, and that she isn't, and is never likely to be, a competitive swimmer or whatever.

We got one once with a long list of all the words the 1 year old dd could say.

Oooh i can't wait

PMSL at one year olds vocabulary

They are fab in their own way though, I also can't wait for my favourite auntie's RR, but she just does a nice, normal one, no boasting. This year she will need to recap that her elder son got married, her younger son got off with the bridesmaid who was her new DILs ex...

No, seriously, it's true

yay ! my parents always get some good ones - will be sure to get back on here with highlights !!

Making my head spin Bratnav!
However. They don't really need to put who their son got off with in their Christmas letter, do they?

Well my auntie does have a sense of humour, and he is still seeing her....

LOL!

We got one last year that had the brilliant opening: "Well, what a year for Team Smith!" (I've changed the surname)

It's a bit sad that RRs are now ridiculed, since I did so enjoy reading them. Now I think that some of the authors have turned their attention to MN, as every so often a poster just can't contain their tendency to brag. And they can do it all year, not just at Christmas.

I only get one and I love it.

We only get one from my cousin and its hilarious. I quite look forward to it

Bumping cos we never get any of these and I love hearing about them!

I always look forward to the RR from one of DH's relatives - I have always longed to send it to Simon Hoggart; imagine my joy when I read his last book of RR's and found one of her epics had been included.
We were waiting for the spotlight of suspicion to be turned on us as the only accredited Guardian-readers in the family, but luckily no else saw it.

I loved the Simon Hoggart book - can you give me a vague indication of the jist of it so I can go and look it up?

Um, don't want to be too specific here but it was rather hilarious - in the travel section - a rather adventurous trip through a war-torn country.

Excellent Rosa!
The secret's safe with me

I get one from someone I've not seen in years, which is written by their dog, ffs.

Ironically, this is the reason I've not seen them in years.

I may write one....

"Dear everyone,
Well, it's been another shit year. The hamster died in February, leaving the cat heartbroken. Luckily, it got run over in March when Granpa suffered a fatal heart attack arriving for lunch one day, and ploughed his Reliant Robin straight through my newly decorated front room. That put the buyers off and the house was repossessed in April. I was going to live in my car, but it was nicked by joyriders and so I was forced to move in with my parents, who were intolerant of my crack habit and threw me out in time for the August bank holiday. I caught leprosy in September, and the resulting hospital stay left me with MRSA and my leg amputated because they mixed me up with another patient of the same name. When I assaulted the idiot surgeon, I was arrested. I'm writing this from Holloway, awaiting sentence.
Happy Christmas."

Tomorrow we will be re-inforcing the letter box in readiness for the card and typed letter from an old study buddie of mine. last year was 4 sheets of closely typed b-o-a-s-t-i-n-g
last year was her car, holidays, daughters wedding, another couple of holidays, her promotion... daughters job, car, holidays, promotions...
Last years highlight was in the 2 pages devoted to the wedding - she had already hinted very hard that it cost a fortune at some country house (that none of us were invited to thank god) - she slipped in her thanks to her daughter's father for contributing to the wine served with the meal...

Mine is going to say, 'Kathy has been screwed over by a colleague at work, who took advantage of her absence on maternity leave to swipe her favourite module'

Oh I love them!

Never blummin get one,tho',I am so

I've just written mine. Anyone want a copy?