More boiler woes but a separate issue from the condensing pipe. Topped the pressure up yesterday as it seemed rather low, heating came on this morning and once it had turned off I rechecked the pressure and it was right down again to 0.5bar (any lower than 0.5bar and the heating won't come on) No signs of any leaks from the boiler or the CH system and given how quickly the pressure had dropped, signs of a leak would be pretty evident so suspicions quickly turned to the expansion vessel and or the prv (pressure relief valve) On old school open vented systems with a hot water cylinder and f&e (feed and expansion) tank, expansion in the system when heated is taken up in the f&e tank, on a combi boiler sealed system there's an expansion vessel with an inflated rubber bladder inside, when the bladder is flat or pierced there's no room in the system to take up the expansion so when the heating comes on and the system pressure rises and goes over 2.5bar the prv opens and dumps CH water out the discharge pipe, then with the combination of the system cooling and the loss of pressure/water via the discharge pipe, the system pressure will be low, often too low for the boiler to operate (sub 0.5bar on this boiler) Went to check the expansion vessel pressure which should be about 11psi and water came out the schrader valve not air 😏 Problem found. On Ebay there are listings for the expansion vessel and a new prv, there might not be a problem with my prv but under normal circumstances they never open, when they do (pressure goes over 2.5bar) they open up as CH water is discharged and then close again but CH water often contains bits of crud and debris even when the system has been ran with inhibitor, so when the valve snaps shut again it doesn't always make a pressure tight seal which is no good for a sealed system. Parts ordered.

When you've got a combi boiler and no hot water cylinder and the boiler breaks you've got no hot water, you can't just flick the immersion heater on, worse still is if you don't have an electric shower to fall back on. Boiler was leaking and upon investigation it was the condensing siphon pipe that had perished, the issue isn't pressure related (sealed system) but just a liquid drain from the flue gas secondary heat exchanger, the liquid is a byproduct from this process. It's doubtful you could just go and pick this part up at the weekend unless there's somewhere local that keeps in stock every Gloworm boiler spare part of every model. Jerry-rigged it myself with a piece of 22mm copper, a 3/4" flexible tap connector cut in half and some insulation tape, might be one of temporary fixes that end up being permanent 😂 although the part isn't expensive.

This didn't feel smooth but manged the half marathon distance under 2hr (just 🤏⏰) Best laid plans went out the window, if I'm only doing 2 runs a week the idea was to put in some easy miles at the start of the week and some shorter but faster stuff later on but for one reason or another haven't done any running for a week. Went off too quick, felt knackered the first few miles and didn't feel right until about mile 6. With some sensible training and staying more active I feel I should be able to smoke this time. #exercise #runstr

Pretty humbling starting your sats stacking journey again when BTC is $90k a coin. My first BTC buy was 0.08 BTC for £494.40 using Bittylicious in Feb 2018. Back then I wasn't buying BTC to own BTC but to on-ramp to crypto and buy altcoins because I thought everyone was getting rich, I'd buy crap like Ark to stake but not knowing what I was doing or even having basic charting skills - this was basically throwing money and Bitcoin away, by early 2018 Ark had had its run and everything was experiencing a blow off top. Ark being a typical DPoS shitcoin, all the emissions were flowing to validators, team members and whales who were no doubt already massively up and could keep selling their rewards as long as there were buyers, the same playbook we've seen over and over again with shitcoins like Atom & Tia. Fast forward to 2026 and I find myself once again buying BTC but this time to hodl, there's been times over the years where I've been up (usually briefly) on Alts but ended up either giving the gains away or riding them back down, then there's been money wasted on NFTs, Airdrops that could've been sold straight away and used to buy BTC but I fell for the old "Stake your airdrop for further loyalty airdrops" BS as the price tanks over time. Long story short I've got some alts left but nowhere near the dollar amount I would have had just keeping all the BTC purchased from 2018 - 2021. 😂 Ark.io + Dragonchain = Maximum Shit.

Watched some videos on YouTube to get some ideas on the best approach to running. Although it's been exercise, what I've been doing could be considered Greyzone running - going out and running the same pace each time and probably faster than I'm conditioned for. Only did 8 miles today but had a go at Fartlek training, set the lap alert on the watch to 0.5 miles, tried to aim for slower laps of 10mi+ and faster laps of 7-8mi. Had to work a bit on the fast laps but not hard enough I couldn't recover when on the slower laps. Next time I go for a longer run I'm going to try for 10mi average and maybe work towards going over 20 mile. #exercise #runstr

Nevermind Roy Shaw & Lennie McLean, this is what a hard b**tard looks like 🤯 Sumie Inagaki 稲垣寿美恵

Any bike #bikestr enthusiasts on Nostr? Been looking at new bikes, originally thought about a gravel bike (best of both worlds) but if I want to increase mileage would be better off on the road and get an endurance bike (less aggressive stance than race/road bikes) All the ones I've looked at come with carbon fibre rims, tubeless and hookless tyres. I've never even ran tubeless nevermind hookless and the hate for hookless seems quite strong on YouTube - some saying it's just a scam (manufacturers saving money on tooling) and some saying they're fine for mtb and gravel bikes (wider, less pressure) but there's no good reason for road bikes with narrower tyres to be running them and even dangerous if over inflated or ran at high pressures. People will highlight the increased weight but I put Schwalbe Marathon Plus Tour Smartguard tyres with inner tubes on my old mtb a few years ago and honestly never get punctures or have to worry about slime. What do other people run on road bikes? Tubeless? And take a repair kit and 16g Co2 can? Or prefer oldskool innertubes? #bikestr #bike

Tried to pace myself around 9:50 min per mile so I didn't bonk and because I don't take anything with me - drinks or gels etc. Ate a banana, crumpet with Maple syrup, a cup of coffee and a mug of water with an electrolyte sachet half an hour before leaving though and the weather is milder today, both of these things seemed to help. Don't wanna look like an Instagram runner but was thinking of getting one of those hydration vests to wear for anything over half marathon especially as the weather gets better and headed into summer. #exercise #runstr

#runstr #exercise

Tried setting up #runstr but ran into a problem, my phone is an older Huawei model running on EMUI, Garmin Connect to Health Connect requires Android 14 or higher to work, there is supposedly a work around using Health Sync (3rd party App) but that requires subscription. Long story short, need a new phone anyway 🤦

Totalitarian tiptoe much?

Nothing much changes! With all the talk yesterday of the US supposedly gearing up for an attack on Iran I thought back to when I was listening to the radio around the early 2ks maybe late 2001 early 2002 after 911 when the US aided by the UK started a war in Afghanistan. It was either David Morales or Roger Sanchez on Galaxy Fm but they played this track and I guess it was quite memorable due to the violin 🎻 Turns out the violinist was an Israeli-American named Miri Ben-Ari מירי בן-ארי and house heads will already know about Kerri Chandler. *I do have them but this post contains no political statements #iran #palestine #syria #lebanon

Knock off Box Bollen from Ebay, they should've added another G to boxing and said it was sponsored by Triple G (Gennady Golovkin) Nice instructions 😂 #funny

Proof of exercise! Some caveats though; 20+yr old hard tail mountain bike still running all the original bearings and bottom bracket. Unfueled, no sports drinks or glycogen top ups, last meal 7pm night before (fruit and rice) no breakfast. January UK, depressing, grey, windy, got cold, drenched and dirty from rain and road spray again. No regular cycle training, might only cycle once a month. Kept the crank turning for nearly 4hrs even if I was crawling at times and thought about getting off. *It's a Giant XTC hardtail that I've had from new, all I've replaced is the chain rings and rear derailleur with the cheapest Shimano stuff I could find on Ebay, Giant might not be top of the range but I'm under the impression the build quality is generally pretty good for the money with Giant and thought about getting a Revolt Gravel bike. #bikestr #exercise

Heart rate seems a bit high but hadn't eaten for 14 hrs (7pm night before) and conditions are still near zero, ice on the ground wearing shorts so I guess your body works a bit harder to keep you warm. 2:01:50 for the half marathon, might try eating a banana or something before next time see if it makes a difference but like the empty stomach sensation tbh. Still massively impressed by people that can do full 26 mile marathons! 1919 calories burnt on an empty stomach and still haven't got a 6 pack, never had one or at least never seen it 😂 6ft 164lb #runstr 🏃

How many dudes got a bit insecure about pull-ups when they saw that 71yr old RFK Jr could do 20? 🙋Guilty 😂 Either it's something you train or you're a rock climber and can probably do loads with ease anyway. Set a bar up, best dead hang so far is 3 minutes totally still no cheating by twisting or swinging around, up to 7 pull-ups so far.

Although there were English & Scots in the WSM final I was actually happy that Rayno Nel won and was kind of rooting for him tbh, fairly new to the sport but smashed it on a few of the events beating the favourites and ex winners of the title. First 🇿🇦 South African (And whole of Africa) to win the title and the guy still had a full-time job and trained Strongman part time. Eddie Hall has made a nice career for himself (TV, YouTube, Social Media, Sponsorships, Appearances etc) after winning the title, hopefully this guy can do the same.

Dusting of snow and ice on the ground when I got up but it didn't look too windy until I hit certain stretches of the run that felt like running into an icey headwind that kicked my ass, stopped the watch and started walking at 13.8 miles, a bit 💩 tbh and felt like I'm getting worse not better 🤷 Forced myself to do some sporadic running totalling another 2.2 miles in between walking as I had to get home anyway. Total ran about 16 miles, 9.35/mi Avg, the only positive is that my average cadence had increased to 161 spm as it's my understanding runners should aim for 160-180 spm, I was wearing running shorts in the cold but my knees were fine. These stats will be poor to experienced runners but I only started the 2nd half of last year. #runstr 🏃

It's making the cattle ill, some cows are collapsing and dying, do you want us to keep adding Bovaer to the feed Mr Gates? Of course, we need to tackle man made climate change and my money has infiltrated the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), UK Food Standards Agency (FSA), and US FDA so it's been deemed safe to use.