No balloons for Christmas this year View(s):I was nicely snuggled up on my sofa watching another episode of my favourite comedy series for the year, when I heard a loud incessant banging on my door. Where’s my usual tot?’I walked to the drinks cabinet and pulled out the best XO brandy I had reserved for such a Christmas Eve. The juicy news would become the talk of the town on Christmas morn, doing the rounds in church aisle pews: ‘Santa Claus is a closet gay.’Santa’s fears rose to an elevated pitch of alarm. I will get dressed in my Santa Claus kit, however wet it is, before anyone comes.’Soon he was donning his Santa Claus suit, and we resumed the conversation from where we had stopped. The police improvised with regular Christmas balloons, but even those ran out.

Source: Sunday Times December 27, 2025 20:44 UTC