Betting.Betfair

The snow is falling. More importantly, we've just moved into the 30 day bandwidth for Met Office advance weather forecasts. It's time to consider our 2010 White Christmas bets! In preparation, I went to a seminar on cyclical recurrence and how to apply this advantageously to betting markets. In the bar afterwards I was in conversation with a [b]Worzel Gummidge[/b] lookalike (how do I always attract these characters in the bar after seminars?) who was convinced the current cold snap (and last winter in the UK) was pre-cursor to a 200 year cyclical return to the mini ice age of the 1500 to 1800s in Britain. " 1813 was the occasion of the last frost fair on the Thames in London and my thinking is that they'll be back as a regular feature of British life by [b]2013[/b]. Winters are going...