THE ALL NEW XMAS PARTY THREAD - SAT 1ST DEC IN LONDON. SIGN UP HERE IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY!

[CountessDracula]

The Mumsnet Xmas party will be on Saturday 1st December at 8pmat Latin Square and Club Havana in Farringdon Road, Clerkenwell

All details below incl how to sign up and pay

VENUE

Details here of the venue. We have exclusive use of the restaurant for the whole night, we can use the cocktail bar too and get free entry to Club Havana all night. I have been and checked it out, my review is here

FOOD

Cost - £26 to include a tip
The food is the Xmas menu, we have chosen:

Starters

Smoked salmon and asparagus - smoked salmon wrapped asparagus spears served with cream cheese
Goat?s cheese salad - with rocket leaves, Goat?s cheese, tomato and olive oil vinaigrette
Selection of Cured Meats - A selection of cured Spanish meats with manchego cheese and melon
Vegetable skewers - Lime-flavoured char-grilled seasonal vegetables with fresh basil, olive oil and balsamic vinegar
Spanish omelette - A traditional Spanish potato and onion omelette
Turkey Breast & cranberry sauce - Turkey breast wrapped with Serrano ham served with cranberry sauce

Mains

Mix Sea Food - Deep fried seafood mix served with lemon, sea salt and aioli
Chorizo - pan fried in red wine sauce
Paella rice with chicken - Traditional paella rice with chicken and traditional herbs
Quesadillas Fiesta - Grilled tortilla parcel with vegetable mix and double cheese filling served with sour cream and salsa mexicana
Spare ribs - pork spare ribs in a hickory bbq sauce
Stuffed Bell Peppers - stuffed with rice, tomato sauce and authentic herbs topped with buffalo mozzerella

Pudding choices (you must choose one)

1. Organic mango and coconut cheesecake
2. Lemon meringue pie with a scoop of strawberry ice-cream made with double cream
3. A shot of Christmas Slammer made with our imported tequila to get you in a great party mood (as opposed to English tequila one presumes)

BOOZE

No booze is included. You have to order and pay for whatever you want on the night

All come on platters to share served at tables.

PAYMENT (for new people signing up and those who have not yet paid)

IF YOU HAVE PAYPAL

• Pls send £27.08 (NOT US Dollars which is the default) to countessdrac at gmail dot com. This is £26 + 3.4% plus £0.20 GBP which is what I will be charged to use this.
• Ensure you put your MN posting name in there somewhere so I know who it is from.
• Pls post on here to say you have paid and post your choice of Pudding (choices at bottom of this post) at the same time.

IF YOU HAVE A BANK A/C FROM WHICH YOU CAN MAKE A DIRECT TRANSFER EG INTERNET OR TELEPHONE BANKING

• Pls email me at countessdrac at gmail dot com, I will send you sort code and a/c no which is all you need to make a transfer.
• Pls post on here to say you have paid when you make the transfer and post your choice of Pudding (choices at bottom of this post) at the same time.
• Pls ensure you tell me the name of the bank a/c that you are transferring from so I can identify your payment. If you are transferring from Halifax pls tell me as I don't get ANY details of who the payment is from, so will need to look out for your payment.

The following people have already signed up and paid me!

Beegie
Beetroot - PAYPAL
Bluestocking - PAYPAL
BreeLGJ
Bubble99
Bunglie
CantSleepWontSleep - PAYPAL
Carmenere
ChippyMinton - paypal, west london into waterloo if anyone wants to hold my little hand
custardo the poet - PAYPAL
DanielJohnston - I have paypal
elesbells -uxbridge.{can sleep 2}PAYPAL
Eleusis
Flame - PAYPAL
Gizmo
Gomez
Hallgerda - PAYPAL, in Streatham
hunkermunker
IntergalacticWalrus- PAYPAL- Coming from Ponceville, Bath.
Jas - PAYPAL
jura - Paypal - SW London
KC1
Kewcumber
Kif - PAYPAL
Kneehighinnappies-paypal-from OXFORD
legalalien - PAYPAL
littlelapin - PAYPAL - Portsmouth
Mamapyjama
MarsLady - PAYPAL
Morningpaper
MrsRecycle - PAYPAL
Nailpolish - From Edinburgh - shitting self - coming on plane with Gomez
Normabutty
novadandypowder - paypal - willing to hold hands with chippyminton as also in west london
mnhq
mnhq
mnhq
mnhq
Pinkbubble
Pinkchampagne - PAYPAL
PPH/MintyVomInThePistachiosDix-Charrington PAYPAL
Psychomum5 if she can share with me at MRM's
Quootiepie
SaintGeorge - PAYPAL - coming from 'ull,
scummymummy
serenity - PAYPAL
shinyhappyschmoo
shiny's friend
Shiny's sister
Slubberdegullion - PAYPAL - Chester
Squiffy
StarryStarryNight - PAYPAL
theslownorris - PAYPAL -Poole
theUrbanDryad PAYPAL
Tigermoth - PAYPAL - taxi sharing from South East London anyone?
tranquilamanana/nappiesgalore - PAYPAL
Whoops - PAYPAL -Southampton
Wilbur - PAYPAL and in Balham
Yeahinaminute
zippitippitoes warwick no paypal ZIPPY YOU CAN POST ME MONEY AND ILL PAY VIA PAYPAL

IF YOU STILL WANT TO SIGN UP PLS ADD YOUR NAME TO THIS LIST

CD, i'm not on the list!!!

I can see you, Sophable...which list are you looking at?

i'm being thick aren't i?

as long as i'm on a list somewhere that's ok.

Ok.. last few comments I have made (over a lot of days!) on this thread have been completely ignored, so it bloody better NOT be like that at the meet-up or else I'll bloody well do a real life FLOUNCE .. but anyway...

Could you please tell me.. is it 8 we have to get there?? And is it really 8? You're not all going to be "fashionably late" are you?? What time do we eat?

Small cut and paste - nobody will notice that I posted on the wrong thread the last time..............

Nailly - I am still coming just sooooooo busy studying for essays/exams etc, I WILL see you at the airport on the 1st. What time are you intending to turf up?

Cheerio

I don't know shiney!

gomez

flight is 1405, will prob be there midday with dh and the girls in tow

i still have your mobile no, do you have mine? if not ill text you with it. just incase.

how ARE all the exams etc going?

Sophable, that's cos the list is of people who have PAID

don't worry I'll pay for you and kneecap you later...

Naily did you get my email re chq???

oh no i didnt CD

is something wrong?

christ, did it bounce

nono
i just forgot to pay it in and wondered if it was ok to do now!

no prob if bad time, I can wait

Cd do you ahve the cheque to hand?

if so does it have my name AND dh's name?

yes it does

god this is embarrassing!

the cheque will bounce if you put it in before friday the 30th. i could either send you another cheque from a different account (which has funds) or you could wait til next thursday/friday. i dont mind. i could post it today.

CD what time must we get there? (Thanks for answering me Flame)

no worries that is really not a prob

Shiny I refuse to answer that on the basis that it is in the first line of the first line of the first post of this thread

Sophable - Psychomum might be cancelling - I will see if I can get a definite answer out of her and then you can pay me instead of CD

are you just going to bank the cheque you have then, CD?

much appreciated xx

Aww, she wants to know if it is arrive by 8pm or everyone will start drifting in from 8 and she will be the first one there

yes that's fine
Can you remind me at the meet up? I always forget these things

Yes I realise that CD [assumes patronising patient expression ] but what I need to know is what time people will ACTUALLY arrive! I don't want to be standing there like a prune, clutching my Dutch courage, at a party for Mumsnetters containing NO Mumsnetters!

I worry about these things you know!!!

Well I would assume that some would arrive on time and some late and some even early

i am always late

Do you want my mobile number? You can hide round a corner, and I can text when we are approaching