Improve on three Rs — positivity is all the rage

THE Round Robin season is upon us.

You know, those letters that fall out of Christmas cards from friends and relatives you may not have seen all year, updating you on how they and their family are doing. It might sound a perfectly innocuous middle class indulgence, but beware — with the Round Robin comes RRR. Round Robin Rage.

You know — the kind of smugness that makes your face erupt in boils of fury. First there’s the boasting about the kids: “Fiachra has just decoded the genome, and Maeve soon starts her internship with Hillary Clinton.” Or, “We’ve recently met Donal’s new fiancée, who is charmingly down to earth, considering her family own most of Scotland.”