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

zippi and naily (you see I feel like I'm the room with you already, stripped down to me undies putting on my mascara, so at ease that I'm abbreviating your names already)

You name the snack, any snack (within reason), I'll be your snack attendant/servant/slave.

(see how grateful I am at your kind offer)

(I am joking of course, I'll put my mascara on in the downsatirs lobby loos and I only inflict the sight of me in my undies on my DH).

i was getting excited for a minute...hav u been following closely slubber

slave sounds good

slave with snacks sounds better babe

There you are! (have fancied a name change for a while).

I have to let you know I am the primary snack slave of Chippy, without whom I would have no bed for the night, or knowledge of the wonderful megabus.

When Chippy's snack needs have been met I'm fully at your at naily's service

your cakes look very good..i have high hopes of snacks lol

oh u don't have to work slubber..i realised after i posted u would think i was chaining u to the stove ...an olive and i'm anybody's

Well I'm never happier than when at the stove, but if olives it is, then I'm sure I can locate some in London

So I take it that it's a no, then - that I can't come, seeing as no-one is talking to me

ah do come because..you are worth it

If I'm allowed to! Will know within the next couple of weeks, and can confirm then, as long as that's not too late ...

i think cd is the arbiter of that..the dates an all

nailpolish, thanks for that info about the Edin meet up

unfortunately dh is having his work night out on the 15th! typical!

will hopefully meet you all one of these days!

Oh I like the word snackerage.

Olives - check
Honey roasted cashews - check

naily??

I have bought aomething to wear...usual thing one bit was cheap and then needed an expensiv bit to go weith it

ooooh, I would so love to come. That would be 3 nights out in a week though with a two month old. My mother would be horrified. DP has been mumbling about visiting BIL in London before xmas...

C'mon Floss, you know you want too

how is it everything seems so much doable after a couple of glasses of wine?! and nigh on impossible the morning after?!!!

Not quite sure I am coming now - I'll let you know for definate soon, if I don't someone else can take my place, I'm not fussed about a refund. x
(It's Quootiepie) X

ok i paid ages ago and my name not even on the list , been offline for ages with our internet company p'ing us around but if someone could email me and let me know whats going on that would be brilliant as i can pick up emails from my parents place!

thanks

In three weeks it'll all be over I am v. excited

i'm getting v v v nervous now!! i was supposed to be coming with LTH, but now i'll have to come on my own. will i be laughed out of the room if i turn up on my own? is anyone else going on their own?