Christmas Balls‘Tis almost the night before Christmas and the old Pansies have decamped to the Smoke for a leg of turkey, lots of stuffing and absolutely no sprouts. Meanwhile, I leave you with a random selection of favourite Yuletide quotes.

There ain’t no Sanity Clause!

Chico Marx

Christmas is the one time of year when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ.

Bart Simpson

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, DC. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.

Jay Leno

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple

The one thing women don’t want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.

Joan Rivers

Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.

Victor Borge

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Benjamin Franklin

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Stephen Fry

A Selfie at Plantation GardensWherever you are and whatever you believe, Liam and I wish you a hopeful Christmas.

Imagine the absurdity of two openly gay, married, middle aged, middle class men escaping the liberal sanctuary of anonymous London to relocate to a Muslim country. I chronicled our exploits with the mad, the bad, the sad and the glad in a blog for the whole world to ignore. Then came the book which became a critically acclaimed best seller. Its success opened out a whole new career for me, firstly as an author, and now as a publisher. Who'd have thought it? Certainly not me. In June 2012, we ended our Anatolian affair and paddled back to Britain on the evening tide, washing up in Norwich, a surprising city in eastern England, then to the wilds of Norfolk as the only gays in the village. I’m sometimes nostalgic for our encounters with the hopeless, the hapless and, yes, the happy go lucky. They gave me an unexpected tale to tell and for this I thank them.

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