I saw my first ever Round Robin today , I thought they only existed on MN

[nymphadora]

No, they do indeed exist and I love them, they are so supercillious. I always want to put a spoof one in our cards but DH says people will think it's serious.

I love them

We have sent out many tongue in cheek ones.

This year we haven't sent any cards so no round robin

My mum gets them. I have yet to have that dubious honour.

what's a round robin?

Another ignorant one! What is a round robin?

Where people put a printed thing in the card which says things like:

"Another wonderful year in the nottelling household! Where did the year go? We have all been very busy, what with our multiple holidays to expensive destinations. Amazing really that the children had time to achieve 18 A* grades each. I also climbed kilimanjaro and raised £13 trillion for charity blah blah blah"

Aaah! My Gran knows a few people who do that. Our family aren't ones to big themselves up/boast about achievements so can't see anyone doing that here! Not to mention this years would mention:

'X died, as did Y, so and so got diagnosed with..., and Z got made redundant'. Maybe not what people want to hear! Here's to 2010!

Umm. Got it. We used to get one. But it was very sweet. One of my mum's childhood friends' who has kept in touch for over 60 years now.

I love them, didn't get any this year. Can I have yours?

I only received one this year and it made me very sad. So full of wonderful happy family things when my own family structure has fallen apart this year. I used to enjoy receiving them but now wonder how sensible it is to send them to people you don't know that well, as you never know what a year they may have had.

Said things like "everyone has escaped the recession and come through the credit crunch in good form".

Ours was from people dh used to work with. I don't know them or even heard of them and it all seemed to be about pe teaching .....

We get one from an Austrian hotel we stayed at once, and it has obviously lost something in translation. Well actually it gains, as it is always hilarious

I'm a bit sad that I haven't had any round robins this year. I like catching up on people's news and enjoying the odd giggle at the smug ones.

I wrote one this year. It was either that or (a) confine myself to Dear X Love from Us or (b) subject the poor innocents to my ever-deteriorating handwriting. I think I did okay. I didn't refer to myself in the third person. I told them DH hadn't really done anything this year apart from remain married to me. I told them DD had learned to swim, albeit in a manner reminiscent of barely controlled drowning, and included a picture of DD looking quite appealling, and our kittens looking far more innocent than they actually are.

I actually wanted to send 2 sides of kitten pictures with a scribbled note 'DD and DH both fine', but chickened out.