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

And I was wondering who Heytherebert was, and also where nappies had gone!

yy that is all fine

I have LOST my list of who is having what pudding
argh!!!!

Oh your ladyship, you have pudding anarchy on your hands!

I had the 8 tequilas

whatever bit was i was having food

bugger will have to trawl through threads and emails again!!!

ARGH

don't worry CD - we won't remember anyway - just bluff it but I won't tell anyone

MrsRecycles friend is going to have cheesecake! (I hope she likes it!) There CD, 1 down, a hundred odd to go!

KHIN & I are having tequila HTH.

Lemon Meringue Pie please (was just kidding about the tequila!)

as long as its vegetarian that's fine Quint!!

right. help.
i am compiling a list of the pudding choices for CD who has had the list stolen by little scary elves with big sharp teeth and numchukkas.

as you can appreciate shes tied up with debriefing and therapy for the trauma right now... so im doing the list, which i need to do ASAP

SO - can someone please help me find one of the millions of threads on this where people have actually put their choices?>?? i am crap under pressure, as you can see...

ho hum. and TIA

actually, may start yet another thread with this for OP

why not just start a dedicated pudding thread list

er.... or that. yes, that might work... but will everyone see it in time for me to complete the list today? doubtful.

will do both. start thread and try to find thread where people have posted their choices and copy ointo new list

right, this is a long shot, but is anyone driving back to Surrey (Leatherhead/Dorking way) on the night? or shall i just wing it??

(i think i was having cheesecake, btw)

You can always drive to mine (just off junction 16 of M25) and come up with me. dh is picking us up later on so you can drive back from our house. cat me if you're interested. You can even crash at mine if you want but I'm not sure if your dh is ok with that

im not fussed over pud. someone else can have mine

Heytherebert - does this help?

HeyThereBert - This is probably the best thread

Snap

Great minds

nailpoilsh - you are down for tequila according to that list

Nailpolish - I will see you at the airport 12.30/12.45 ish on Saturday if okay with you?

princessmel - are you still wanting to meet up on the train on the way down? Just planning my times now.

Urban - I am dropping off Beegee in Guildford - is that near where you need to go?