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Yesterday I posted my annual batch of Christmas cards. Writing my share of our cards each year is a job I loathe for some reason. I don’t know why because it doesn’t take long and it’s the only way I stay in touch with some folk.
The list is getting shorter though - I had to cross another name off this year. Mrs H says we receive about half the number of cards we received years ago and at our age the reason is obvious enough.
Oh well, job done for another year.
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It pains me that I send cards to people, with whom I spent a lot of time and shared many a long bibulous evening with, but I now have little chance of meeting again because of distance, age, lack of funds, etc.
More and more I get follow on letters from family of old friends explaining that death some time in the previous year means that will no longer be receiving a card.
The other thing that annoys me is that the postage stamp costs more than the envelope and its contents.
Doonhamer - I know what you mean, I send cards to people I have little chance of meeting again. I think it's mostly distance with us, the miles we'll travel in a day shrinks as we get older.
Yes the cost of stamps has become annoying. An email message would make more sense but it's not traditional.
I likewise send a few out to my dwindling band of friends (death, and more significantly, lack of other contact has done for them...) but one advantage of living in the vicarage is that there is a sort of unwritten rule that the parishioners don't get any. It always causes trouble with people feeling excluded if they don't get one.
Sam - Christmas cards do tend to emphasise lack of contact. We send cards to people we haven't seen for years and probably won't see again.
I wrote all our cards early one morning, as the dog had wanted to go out for a wee, so I stayed up...
In better weather, I rather like getting the bike out and delivering the local cards personally, but as it was still murky, and we're both getting over colds, I drove around, and it's just as well, as it rained for ages!
We've gained several local names, and lost a couple elsewhere, and while it seems daft to give a close neighbour a card, there's a rather pleasant feeling of companionship which endures during the weeks when we're not chatting over the wall!
Scrobs - we give cards to close neighbours. As you say it does seem daft, but sometimes we don't see them for weeks as we go out at different times, so it does keep the contact going during winter.
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