{"id":12920,"date":"2016-12-31T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=12920"},"modified":"2020-12-14T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T11:21:09","slug":"on-the-tenth-day-of-christmas-we-bring-you-rosie-miles-laura-mckee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/on-the-tenth-day-of-christmas-we-bring-you-rosie-miles-laura-mckee\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Tenth Day of Christmas we bring you Rosie Miles, Laura McKee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Take the stress out of entertaining<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taking our inspiration from chefs marinated in<br \/>\nspicy vodka we\u2019ve got lots of intrepid sprout trends<br \/>\nto add a little sparkle as the centrepiece of a Boxing Day<br \/>\nhanging.\u00a0 The traditional way makes it even more<br \/>\nshowstopping.\u00a0 If you fancy a sustainably sourced Middle Eastern<br \/>\nexpert the last date for Christmas orders is 15 December.<br \/>\nThe meat cooks on the bone but lifts away for easy carving.<\/p>\n<p>If it\u2019s the wow factor you want we\u2019ll deliver more than<br \/>\n1000 different Belgian bakers to your door: they\u2019re<br \/>\nsoft and fluffy, wrapped in chocolate and impeccably traditional.<br \/>\nAll over the UK and Europe small family firms lightly<br \/>\ndusted with gold are hiding in the middle, but<br \/>\nour selection of hand-picked Banana and Bacon Trifle<br \/>\nspecialists can take care of everything.\u00a0 Cheers!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rosie Miles<\/strong> lives in Birmingham, where her poem \u2018You enter\u2019 is etched into King\u2019s Heath Urban Village Square.\u00a0 Her debut pamphlet <em>CUTS<\/em> was published by HappenStance in 2015.\u00a0 She doesn\u2019t like Christmas pudding but does like jelly.<\/p>\n<p>Note: <em>Take the stress out of entertaining <\/em>is entirely constructed from the <em>Waitrose Christmas Festive Food<\/em> Guide 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>then at the end of the year<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>she had all of these words<br \/>\nthat she&#8217;d never said<br \/>\nout loud<\/p>\n<p>she could hang them on a tree<br \/>\nthat pretended to be alive<br \/>\nin the living room<\/p>\n<p>wooden soldiers<br \/>\nin brightly painted coats<\/p>\n<p>some that shone<br \/>\nand curved<br \/>\nreflected the needles<\/p>\n<p>one with a name<br \/>\npainted on in glitter glue<\/p>\n<p>a string of lights<br \/>\nwhich stopped working<br \/>\nif one of them popped<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura McKee<\/strong> started writing by mistake. Her poems have turned up on postcards to friends, in journals, on a bus, and in two anthologies. She has been shortlisted but hopes to get taller.\u00a0 Contact her via Twitter: @Estlinin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Take the stress out of entertaining Taking our inspiration from chefs marinated in spicy vodka we\u2019ve got lots of intrepid sprout trends to add a little sparkle as the centrepiece of a Boxing Day hanging.\u00a0 The traditional way makes it even more showstopping.\u00a0 If you fancy a sustainably sourced Middle Eastern expert the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twelve-days-of-christmas-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12920"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12979,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12920\/revisions\/12979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}