Had any round robins this year?

[dinny]

I have had two

God, I love reading them

I think part of the problem is that what feels like a bald statement of fact to the writer might read like showing off to the reader. Eg if you said 'we've had our extension finished so we've now got 5 bedrooms' you might just mean it as 'thank goodness we've got enough space for all our junk now' but the person reading it might think 'Ooh, get you! Showing off about how big your house is!'
Especially if they are indiscriminately stuffed in with every card the family sends, even people they hardly know.

I like reading other peoples and having the odd chuckle. I don't send them though. I write personal notes in every card which takes ages.

I agree that indiscriminate stuffing (ooh er!) is not to be condoned.

However, if it is just a statement of fact why is it interpreted as showing off? Surely it says more about the mind of the reader than the sender?

I love receiving the honest ones, don't receive many others though.

One year I'll get around to sending one back!

I don't send any because I am aware a lot of people don't like them.

If I wrote one for us it would be along the lines of

ds learned to ride his bicycle
ds learned to swim
dd started horse riding
dh worked very hard
I got a new puppy
2 of my cats got killed

Can anyone perceive that as showing off?

Never had one. Please do divulge!

I don't think its so much the showing off, but surely you talk to the people that matter, and are the people you only communicate with once a year via christmas card really interested in your son learning to ride a bike?

We get loads, a good dozen each year and a couple have come through this week. Normally including some pure gold. My teens love them, and enjoy picking out the best boasts and most number of trips abroad.

There's a bloke who wrote 2 books about them, called something like 'the cat who could open the fridge' and 'the hamter who loved puccini.' Now those are side splittingly hilarious

One of my old neighbours once showed me one she'd been sent from friends in America.

It was on shiny paper folded like a book and it had colour photos [inadequate]

The pictures were of the new pool and the Bichon Frise puppy and their holiday in Dubai and their dc's prizegiving.

only this one

Got a particularly irksome one today. Highlights include (names removed to protect them, but God knows why I should)..
"Shortly thereafter, the next academic year began at University, and life sped up rather. I have assumed duties as the University Union Debating Society's "Wine Officer" (possible the most important role in the society, I can assure you!) and unnofficial phototgrapher whilst my brother as joined the fencing team and is improving in leaps and bounds, if you'll forgive the pun. Soon, I feel, he shall regain his former prowess as school captain"

And on it goes for two bloody pages! Had to check that it wasn't from Henry Conway!

oh come on, read the link and come and join us on the 'let's make one up' thread...

Wilf, that is farking brilliant!

Okay, okay, the new pool and the academic year etc would probably cheese me off a bit too