Cheltenham festival week and I was thinking of an expression my grandmother would often use to discourage betting, and about the business model of the bookmaker (turf accountant, bookie etc).“You never see a bookie on a bike”Bookmakers rely on 2 things to make their business model successful-Honesty, their word is their bond, never a quarrel continue reading

We hear a lot at the moment about the death of the high street, but it’s not all doom and gloom: my local hardware store (in a rundown part of town) is thriving, in fact, for me, a trip into town isn’t complete without popping into Mountfords.It’s not the wide range of products stocked (although continue reading