[mobertol]

Received my first "Round Robin" today in the card from my friend Jaqui - lots of good news, photos and family milestones. It will get filed away with the others I have always kept plus the letters she used to send before we started e-mailing!

Another card was from my last Great-Aunt, Jeanne - with a nice long letter and all her news and a couple of photos of her Grand-children who i have never met! We have been keeping in touch twice a year for 24 years, since i moved to Italy. Her husband Granville (my grand-dad's brother) always had a soft spot for Italy as he was hidden in Piedmont for some time during WWII by the Italian resistence (his plane was shot down, he was a navigator). He fell in love with the country and they had many holidays here over the years.

What a shame we are losing the culture of writing letters - they are lovely to keep and re-read years down the line...