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

i will probbly be early
always am
im dead keen me
especially at a bar

[pictures self wearing her badge and looking like a sad, half-pissed billy no mates ] Well I'll have my sister and friend with me but they'll think it's hilarious if we are first there.. they already think you're all either a. a figment of poor Shiny's imagination who they must humour out of respect for their Poor Sister/Best Friend or b. that they're attenting a Christmas Anorak Convention out of respect for Poor Sister/Best Friend!!

So I need you to all a. Be there at eight or soon after and b. Be nice and friendly to me! (Even though I've never met any of you in person before.. [tremble])

Don't want much do I?

Excellent Naily, that's fab And thank you Flame.. just turn up, that'll be fine

CD, i wonder why i ddnt get your email...?

Shiny I will be nice to you

That's good, CD, because I heard you were scary..

I don't think I'll be able to come dh is on early the next day and i have no one to look after dc. Don't think I'll be able to get home and be sober to look after kids. i have not paid yet cd.

sorry not chippy serenity (traveling with hallgarda) from streatham

ignore last post!!

Sorry cd but I won't be able to make it as it clashes with college that weekend. I hadn't paid.

Psycho is coming afterall, so ignore my offer of paying me money instead of CD

Getting to the "oh, shall I chicken out or not?" time!

If I don't chicken out, I have room for 3 people if anyone needs a lift home, possibly 4. I am dropping Beegee back to Guildford and myself back to Bracknell if anyone is along those sort of routes.

I don't know anyone from Mumsnet yet so I shall be going alone. Hope I'm accepted by the 'in' crowd.

Thread here for anyone South Londonish wanting to meet and travel up on the Thameslink.

Is anyone else (Gizmo?) coming from Cambridge and going back that night?

Shiny!
I shall be nice to you, too!
But I am always nice.

Shiny - I can vouch for QS - her AuPair is good friends with my AuPair.

Oh spooky, Kathy, I haven't been able to mumsnet for days and suddenly find my name!

I'm afraid I'm going to stay with a friend so I'll be going down in the afternoon and not going back to cambridge that evening.

Hows the job going?

Oh well I shall see you there then Gizmo!

It's sort of nice being back at work but dd is not happy at nursery so she's not sleeping [bags under eyes emoticon]
Am making most of cheese shop and bread stall though....

MrsRecycle i'm going to email you now!!

Yup Shiny, the power of mumsnets, bringing mums and their aupairs together!

MrsR! How are you? Are you coming to the after christmas meet up in Richmond?

Can anyone tell me what the parking is like near the venue? I am going to be driving and am wondering where the best place to leave my car will be
TIA

oh hi Chippy!

Hi QS - I'm fine thanks - not sure I can make it as it's the day before our works Xmas do but it is in the back of my mind so I might just be able to sneak out. (and dd1 did say to me the other night you haven't been out for a long time and AP agreed with her!!)

Hello, can I pay please? who do i paypal?