Jeannie Shapiro

Chiswick Business Network Happy Hour networking @ Megan's next Thurs 25 Sep

90 minutes of great networking & socialising at this fab Chiswick establishment. All local businesses welcome.

Cost incl welcome drink, light nibbles & great networking.

Book: meetup.com/chiswick-bus...

Our latest newsletter is out!

It’s just under four weeks to the big Festival weekend! With more events selling out, and waiting lists filling up, it’s time to make up your mind! Don’t be disappointed - choose your sessions now!

You can read the full newsletter here: bit.ly/45xPI2l

Latest newsletter:
Celebrating 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth

Speakers:
-Marking 80th anniversary of the end of WW II
-Politics & current affairs speakers: Jeremy Hunt, Alan Johnson, Gabriel Pogrund & Patrick Maguire
-Children's Festival tkts selling fast!

Full newsletter
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17th Chiswick Book Fest 10–15 Sep. We have a fantastic line-up of children’s authors:

📚Sat & Sun 13/14 Sep - Axel Scheffler, Kevin F Sutherland, Michael Holland, Zohra Nabi, Robert Tregoning, JP Rose, Eve Wersocki Morris & many more...

Details & tickets www.chiswickbookfestival.net/tickets/

Yesterday I enjoyed a fabulous garden party co-hosted by the fabulous @jeannies.bsky.social at the wonderful Sandy Lancaster's House of Colour with delicious catering by Leon at Hamilton Catering! Great to catch up with a few people & make new connections whilst celebrating community in the sunshine

Chiswick Business Network Happy Hour Networking this Wed May 14 16.30 @ The Hound Chiswick.

Join us 4 great networking & socialising at this fab Chiswick High Road venue. Cost incl a welcome drink & light nibbles. All local businesses welcome.

Details & booking: www.meetup.com/chiswick-bus...

YouTube video by Jeannie Shapiro Chiswick Coffee Break - episode 18 with Helen Wood from Lil' Nashville

I had a great conversation with Helen Wood owner of Lil' Nashville, our new honky-tonk bar and restaurant here in the heart of Chiswick. Such a great new addition to our community.

Enjoy episode 18 of my Chiswick Coffee Break series.

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Welcome former President @barackobama.bsky.social to Bluesky. A voice of reason - you are missed!

Last call for this Thurs 27 Mar Happy Hour Networking @ Lil’ Nashville, the brand-new honky-tonk bar & restaurant in the heart of Chiswick.

Tkt incls drink, light nibbles, live music, Southern hospitality & great networking.

All local biz welcome www.meetup.com/chiswick-bus...

Join us Thurs 27 Mar for Happy Hour Networking @ Lil’ Nashville, the brand-new honky-tonk bar & restaurant in the heart of Chiswick.

Tkt incls drink, light nibbles, live music, Southern hospitality & best networking in W London. All local biz welcome!

Details & book: meetup.com/chiswick-bus...

YouTube video by Randy Rainbow Defy Democracy - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody

Taking my Trump derangement syndrome to new heights. (Stay for the finale.) 🧹🫧💚🇺🇸 #NewVideo #DefyDemocracy #Parody

Join us Thurs 27 Mar for Happy Hour Networking @ Lil’ Nashville, the brand-new honky-tonk bar & restaurant in the heart of Chiswick.

Tkt incls drink, light nibbles, live music, Southern hospitality & best networking in W London. All local biz welcome!

Details & book: meetup.com/chiswick-bus...

#ChiswickBusinessNetwork Happy Hour networking @ My Place Chiswick @ My Place Chiswick.
this Thurs Feb 27 - 90 minutes of great business networking!

Cost includes drink, light nibbles & best networking in West London!

All local businesses welcome!

Book now meetup.com/chiswick-bus...

Abundance London asked Colette from #no1firstaidinstructors to train up 12 of our volunteers. Everyone should know what to do in an emergency, and now 12 more people in Chiswick have the knowledge.

Good for Abundance, good for #Chiswick.

#firstaid #emergency #guerrillagardening

Wow so interesting!

Yes this!

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

My Beautiful Laundrette + 40th Anniversary Q&A Professor Ruvani Ranasinha marks the 40th anniversary of Hanif Kureishi’s film My Beautiful Laundrette in a Q&A with Torin Douglas.

🎥 Professor Ruvani Ranasinha from @kingsenglish.bsky.social‬ is taking part in a Q&A with Chiswick Book Festival Director Torin Douglas to mark the 40th anniversary of Hanif Kureishi’s film, My Beautiful Laundrette (1985).

📆 18 February
⏰ 8pm
📍 Chiswick Cinema

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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

"I feel for the guy."

Sam Altman told Bloomberg TV that OpenAI is “not for sale," and Elon Musk's unsolicited bid for the company is a sign of his "insecurity."

See the interview: trib.al/UVEzkHg

Here's the Chiswick Book Festival team getting down to business for the 2025 Festival September 10-15. We've got some big plans and working our magic to make this year's Festival the best one yet #Chiswick !

Go Costco!

I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it. Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.

Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."

She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.

RIP Jimmy Carter. They don't make 'em like that anymore and so wish they did. A great President and man!

Senate passes Social Security benefits increase for some public workers The Social Security Fairness Act passed by a vote of 76-20 in the early hours of Saturday.

The best news! Thanks @schumer.senate.gov Such a great way to end the year and on my BD too!

www.cnbc.com/2024/12/20/s...

Sorry to hear that @shelleyhass.bsky.social - hope your knee isn't too bad. The gin will help :)

Hmm think the clock is going in the wrong direction (trying hard to slow it down :) 😘