General Chat

I get one or two of those letters, mainly one from America from friends of the family, they come to me now my Mum is dead and I do know the couple and their daughter and know of their relatives. I gloss over the bits I don't have any link to.
The funny thing is that the letter is always sent from their cat as if reporting on the family news and this last year the younger cat took over as the old cat was poorly.

I have often intended to do a round Robin letter as there are so many people to stay in contact with since Mum died, but usually it ends up with me scribbling a personal note in the relevant cards and the rest get a Love from or something more formal depending on who they are. I do like to keep up the contact as many of the people meant a lot to Mum and she appreciated their news.

One old friend of mine makes me smile every year. Each time she sends a card it's the exact same wording, she could have a rubber stamp done in her hand writing and I wouldn't know the difference. Fgs, we were friends at work when we were in our late teens and stayed in touch for a long time by visiting each other but as my friend's son grew up and she went back to work, and I was at home with a young child through being an older Mum, the contact dwindled to the card at Christmas etc. yet every time she writes 'With sincere wishes for Christmas from.......'

In the last seven years she has had two grandsons but no mention or photos of them - I only found out from her son when I bumped into him, yet I was at his Christening, helped do the catering at her house, and spent Christmas with them one year when my son was small and their son 12 years older than mine.

Funny woman, if it had been the other way round I would have sent her a note and photos in with the card. I know if I went round she would make me welcome, it's just that it's me who has to make the effort.

Will be busy writing my cards soon enough, foreign ones first and then hoping to do most of the others when o.h. and I go away to the N. Norfolk coast for a few days in early December . He has some days off to use up so we thought we would go back to the rented house with a log fire that he loves so much and see how the village has changed since we visited several years back. Hope the weather will be drier then, but Kings Lynn and Hunstanton to visit and shop in and other places to go if it's too wet and cold to walk on the beach etc.

Lizx

Yep I do one - but it's a funny one, - and I have had friends say that it has made them laugh so much and how they look forward to the next one. :-S


We've moved round a fair bit and so have friends all over the country and, though we rarely see these folk, our shared history means we like to keep in touch. I don't send them to people I see on a regular basis though.


I got so fed up with receiving bombastic, boastful, egotistical, conceited epistles from an ex boyfriend and his family, that I decided that I would do the complete and utter opposite. It's gone down a treat........ :-)


If I were to print a letter stating all our achievements, holidays, successes and the like, I would be sending a blank sheet ;-)


Cx

Rose, yes my letter is about the same as yours, I never brag about what my children/grandchildren have done. what Mother doesn't think her children are wonderful? (ok, yes I know there are a few.) I think it is mainly to very old friends, some of whom are not on the computer but who are still interested as I am. I do type mine, my writing is not good and I find I can't hand write very much these days as my hands get cramp.

I have not had a letter asking me to stop sending but I would if asked, saving time and paper and would regret the loss of a friendship.. Only one of the letters goes abroad to a widow of an ex colleague of my other half, but I have met here and spent time in her house.

I should add that I am an inveterate letter writer (typed these days) always have been and write loads of letters in addition to the Christmas ones, both throughout the year and at Christmas so I feel no guilt at the duplicated few I send. Most of those I send to are bad correspondents and if I didn't hear from them at Christmas I would never hear.


John, you didn't tell us the names of the kittens. :-D

I used to love reading about the antics of friends young children but once they started going to uni etc they tended to be less endearing, this seems to coincide with home extensions and the showyoffness stakes soar.
We now have one couple who have so much to swag about that the half A5 is now a four page leaflet!

I'd much rather receive one from Cynthia ^ :-D and wonder if she knows the same couple as us :-0

A quick scribble in the card is enough for me :-)

OK Island, I shall remember that. :-D

Just don't go into detail about the Worldwide tea bag folding tours Wend :-0 :-D

What about the kitchen extension we had done 15 years ago?

M orning All, my sister and her OH do, but they are a professional couple and send hundreds of Christmas cards. And strangley enough, I always look forward to reading.
Me, I can't be bothered.

Julia in Derbyshire

AnninGlos. They are Buddug, Blodwen and Gwyn. I called Buddug a girl's name because I thought she was a girl. But she is a boy!!!

That will be another highlight of my 10 pages of an electrifyingly fascinating year which I will post by popular demand. :-D :-D

You wait Wend...IF we get one this year I'll forward it to you :-\ :-\

Thank you all for adding :-D I think that those of us who have moved quite a lot probably do the Christmas letter more from the sound of it.

I hope mine are quite 'chatty', I still have last years in my documents and read it last night after some of the comments here and it comes across as 'how I speak' rather than a list of achievements ( mine would be a blank sheet also Cynthia lol).

I sometimes put in a bit about the family tree, because some are distant relatives or have expressed an interest in knowing if I've found anything interesting.

I do get a couple of 'round robin' letters from people I haven't seen for decades, but they are not of the boasting type, I don't really know many people like that ( they fell by the wayside) though I could write the CVs for the offspring of one who is a bit like that, she doesn't mean to be I don't think and it cuts no ice and just makes me give a wry smile and think 'ah but I remember you when.....' :-D

Wend.

So do you really fold teabags?

Doesn't all the tea fall out and make a mess? ;-)

xJ

She does Jill, it's one of her more interesting hobbies ;-) ;-) :-D

But I promised I wouldn't talk about her while she's away causing havoc with Uzzi :-D :-D

I'm glad that Uzzi has some company. She is so lovely. We've chatted when she's been in the country.

We should organise a hobby weekend somewhere sometime but I should point out, I don't drink tea - only hot choc and I think if I try to fold the jar it's going to be very messy and painful :-0

That's a nice idea Jill! Depending on how weird your hobbies are LOL

Have you tried 'meetups'? It's a nationwide with a huge range of interests the purpose being to get together with like minded souls in your area. Have to say there are more meetings in cities but anyone can add something local to see if they get any interest.

Sorry for going off track Rose :-(

Ooops. Yes. Sorry RR. :-(