Category: Business

Boxcars

Boxcars is the (American) slang for throwing double sixes in a game of craps or backgammon. For those of us outside the United States a boxcar is a railway freight wagon and apparently the six pattern looks like one – no, I don’t think so either.

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Boring is Best

  There has been nothing to get excited about in the UK stock market recently. The FTSE 100 has been moving sideways, at best, for about three years.

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Kiva

ˈkiːvə/ noun a chamber, built wholly or partly underground, used by male Pueblo Indians for religious rites.

Earl’s Court

What memories does the Earl’s Court exhibition centre hold for you? Andrew took me to the Royal Tournament, Richard was a regular attender at the Boat Show and, once, to an opera when he was feeling distinctly ill. I think it was Turandot. Well, it is no more.

Take a Seat

The diocese alluded to in a recent post, How Big is Your Diocese, is Sudak in the Crimea. I’d hitherto never heard of the place and never expected to hear of it again, until a few days ago.

The Compleat Imbiber, Part One

Cyril Ray, who died in 1991, was best known in his latter years as a writer on wine. He wrote books about Bollinger, Chateau Lafite-Rothschild and Chateau Mouton-Rothschild, among others. However, his back-story is interesting.

A Matter of Trust

  I like companies where the interests of shareholders and management are aligned and touched on this in a recent post, Today’s Post is for Monty. Another slightly different example is The North Atlantic Smaller Companies Investment Trust, watched over by Harwood Capital and Christopher Mills.

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Venetian Souvenirs

Poor, poor Venice; the footfall of overweight tourists is making it sink ever lower in the lagoon and the Adriatic is rising, not problems that will be solved here.