{"id":2127,"date":"2015-12-13T08:33:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T08:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2015-12-13T08:33:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T08:33:13","slug":"six-geese-a-laying-another-short-christmas-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2127","title":{"rendered":"Six Geese a-Laying &#8211; Another short Christmas read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This short story by Sophie Kinsella has a touch of the supernatural about it.<\/p>\n<p>The six geese of the title are the ladies attending the exclusive antenatal class.\u00a0\u00a0All are\u00a0 high achieving, smart mothers-to-be.<\/p>\n<p>Although they are all attending because the class is being led by\u00a0the legendary Petal Harmon, each woman has already decided\u00a0exactly what she wants, and how she&#8217;s going to handle motherhood.<\/p>\n<p>However, the final class it isn&#8217;t quite what they expect&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B006H4DBA4\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=B006H4DBA4&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=invittoevent-21\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51aoIuM3KtL._SL250_.jpg\" alt=\"Six Geese a-Laying by Sophie Kinsella\" width=\"160\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Six Geese a-Laying by Sophie Kinsella<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Another short Christmas read.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"When a Child is Born - Susan Boyle&amp;Johnny Mathis - Lyrics -\" width=\"748\" height=\"561\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SqFKb8WYbY8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Festive songs courtesy of Youtube. 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Although they are all attending because the class is being led by\u00a0the legendary Petal Harmon, each woman has already decided\u00a0exactly what she &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2127\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Six Geese a-Laying &#8211; Another short Christmas read<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[521,662],"tags":[130,982,999],"class_list":["post-2127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calendar-events-misc","category-literature","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-books","tag-six-geese-a-laying"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Six Geese a-Laying - Another short Christmas read - City Adventurers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2127\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Six Geese a-Laying - Another short Christmas read - City Adventurers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This short story by Sophie Kinsella has a touch of the supernatural about it. 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