So Was There a Fourth Man? ; Kimberly's Lover, Simon Hoggart, Wrote the Book On Xmas Round Robins. Quentin Letts Imagines How His Round Robin Might Read What a Year! Nibbles with Kimberly at Lunchtime and Now It's Ding Dong Not so Merrily On High

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THEY are the dreaded addition to the family portrait Christmas card round robin letters in which the sender boasts of their triumphant year. But how should you keep your friends up to date with the events in your life without sounding smug?

Step forward Guardian and Spectator wine columnist Simon Hoggart, who this year wrote the definitive book on Christmas round robin letters and who, oh yes, had an affair with Kimberly Quinn at the same time as David Blunkett.

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So Was There a Fourth Man? ; Kimberly's Lover, Simon Hoggart, Wrote the Book On Xmas Round Robins. Quentin Letts Imagines How His Round Robin Might Read What a Year! Nibbles with Kimberly at Lunchtime and Now It's Ding Dong Not so Merrily On High

QUENTIN LETTS imagines what form his festive roundup might take.

WELL, what a year!

Apologies for not getting this round robin letter to you sooner but I have had my hands full as the entire British nation now knows all too well.

Here in south London, amid the Christmas carols and tape- recorded sleigh bells, the words 'di...

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