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

Oh poo, MamaPyjama, I'm staying with friends in London that night. Sorry

I'll talk to you Love Angel

Everyone feelsa the same I'll bet

I'm onkly going because I can go with yeahinaminute, who I know.

I'll talk to you LoveAngel, I get paranoid no one will talk to me but people did last year, but still scared this year. I probably wouldn't have gone this year though but I am going with Beegee, last year I am sure I knew more people going pretty well!.

Now COV, I don't have you down as paid. Prob an error on my part I would say. Could you check if it went out?

No nothing from mustrunmore
How did she pay?

I paid you by paypal on 11th September. I can see it on my paypal record, but I didnt keep the confirming email, so I dont know how to show you the proof I cant afford to pay twice

Actually, if you look at the old thread Cd, you might remember me querying because I'd only paid £26 not the bit with the fees on top, as you'd just about reached your limit before charges began to be incurred, but you said the £26 was fine.

No no don't worry
I must have just missed it

Can you email me your real name pls and the email address that it came from ?

It may just be that it was clearing or someting

countessdrac at gmail dot com

Yep, ok

is your surname scottish sounding?

CD, as you are here, can I ask have you given my place away? Fine if you have, but today a fellow MNWIer has offered to put me up for the night, so I may now be able to come.

sorry to keep mucking you about.

My email surname is, but not my real one! The real one is Lancashire sounding!

No that's fine

Mustrunmore I have found it
So sorry

My shit admin skills soz

Can I just ask a question that I imagine has been asked sixteen squintillion times before except I can find no trace of it being answered:

Badges?

Homemade?

If so what is the collective opinion on the best information for them?

i will be wearing a sticker with my name on it

i dont have the energy or inclination to make a badge tbh

Your RL name or mumsnet name?

(that's a thick question, isn't it?)

probably just my MN name

ill tel you my RL name when we strike up a conversation

what do you think?
whats happened previously

naily's real name is esmerelda

Yeah, it was a dumb question

I don't know what's been done previously but I guess it can't be beyond my craft skills - how hard can it be? As long as there isn't some sort of ISO Standard badge I don't know about.

What, another one?

seriously, i wil have a sticker with my name written in biro

might even get dd1 to do it

Can't you just have a sticker with a thing of nailpolish on it?

like a picture? or a brushstroke

what are yo udoing CD? or are you so famous you dont NEED a badge

oooh i have an idea - i might cut a pic of nailpolish out of a mag and stick it on a safety pin

[gizmo regrets rather nonspecific name]