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There are four main ways to own gold in the UK. You can buy:
Bullion to hold at home Vaulted bullion An exchange traded fund All gold in the UK is VAT free for non VAT registered private individuals.
Bullion to hold at home đź”—There are two types of bullion you can hold:
UK currency Other UK currency covers sovereigns and Britanias. The Brittania is a one ounce gold coin, the Sovereign is a 0.2354 troy ounce coin. They are both legally classed as currency in the UK, which means there is no capital gains tax to pay on them, and no VAT. Very nice!
Claude Gellee 🔗I recently came across some works by Claude Gellee. He’s a landscape painter who’s paintings take me away to scenes from the fantasy novels I love binge reading.
Here are some of his works that I saw at the National Gallery in London:
A View In Rome:
Seaport with the embarkation of the queen of Sheba:
A seaport:
A seaport with the embarkation of Saint Ursula:
Claude-Joseph Vernet đź”—While enjoying some Claude Gellee paintings at The National Gallery, I came across Claude-Joseph Vernet.
His landscapes have some similar themes to Claude Gellee and I found myself enjoying them a lot.
Here are some favourites:
A Landscape at Sunset:
A Shipwreck in Stormy Seas
Pinacoteca Ambrosiana đź”—While in Milan at the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana museum, I came across these fantastic paintings:
Jan Brueghel 🔗Allegory of Fire 🔗 Panels 🔗 Paul Bril 🔗Veduta Marina 🔗 I really enjoyed this. It reminded me of Claude-Gellee’s ports. I’ll put together a series on Landscapes of Ports sometime…
Giovanni Migliara 🔗Scorcio dell’interno del Duomo di Milano 🔗 Gerolama Mazzola Bedoli 🔗
I run a Shopify store and have been experimenting with different sales pages and checkouts, which is great for making sure I’m getting the best conversions possible, but makes things a bit trickier with pixel tracking.
Fortunately, the Facebook pixel can track across domains. It’s as simple as putting your pixel on any page on any domain you want data to be sent from.
I recently started experimenting with SamCart and found that my pixel wasn’t registering data from it.
Reducing My Cholesterol 🔗After talking to my doctor and having some blood tests done, it turns out my cholesterol is incredibly high - it’s around 8. It should be an absolute maximum of 4.7-5.
So I need to bring it down.
I live fairly healthily. I take at least two walks a day, do resistance training several times a week and go running once a week. Most of the food I eat is healthy and freshly prepared. I don’t smoke and I have a couple of units of alcohol a week.
Life is Beautiful was made in 1997 by Roberto Benigni. 1
This review contains spoilers.
Setting đź”—The movie is a two part story, starting in pre-WW2 Italy and ending in a German concentration camp.
The first part shows how the protagonist, Guido, finds the love of his life and starts a family, the second how his family tries to survive the hours of Nazi Holocaust camps.
Guido is a bit of a comedian and always joking around. No matter the situation, he will find a way to make light of it and have some fun.
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport 🔗Digital Minimalism - or as I like to think of it, “Finding serenity in an ocean of digital noise”.
The modern world is gripped by a chronic use of the internet: the average daily time spent on social media is now over 2h20m a day. 1 2
Aside from being a chronic waste of time, social media use is also correlated to increased anxiety. 3
Not only are we wasting our time on social media, we’re damaging our mental health.
80/20 Sales and Marketing by Perry Marshall đź”—This was recommended to me by several people that I know, one of whom found it so valuable she immediately started making changes to her life and business from it.
I think the measure of a good business book is the amount of actionable changes a person can make to their life/business after reading it. So here is my review, the things I’ve implemented, and I’ll update the post in a couple of weeks with on further implementation.
How to Write a Non-Fiction Book đź”—Last year (2022), I decided that I was going to write a book. The end product was my book, How to Practice Guitar and Train Your Creativity.
It was an interesting process to go through, which I thought I would outline for anyone that was interested in writing their own book.
They key steps can be broken down as follows:
Expertise Schedule Brainstorm Outline Write Edit Deliver Experience 🔗When it comes to writing a non-fiction book, you should be writing on something that you are an expert on. If you are writing a fiction book, this step doesn’t apply and skip ahead to the next section.