Sorry to hear that. Hope it isn’t quite as stressful as it could be.
So sorry to hear this Guy.
Sorry to hear this guy.
Just ordered one of these 
Been after one for a few years, with the data logging and ability to identify sources it’s a CBRN nerds dream
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Hope you don’t have to use it in anger 
Er, why? 
It might be 20 times faster than a GM tube but its overwhelming advantage is that it does spectrometry, and it’s got all that cleverness behind it which allows it to identify isotopes from their spectra. If you gather enough foodstuff together you might be able to tell between the radioactive potassium-40 in your bananas and radium-226 or -228 in your Brazil nuts 
(by weight Brazil nuts can be a thousand times more radioactive than ‘average’ food). It might also deter you from ever visiting a cafe in a hospital that has a nuclear medicine department (quietly glowing patients often sit there while the stuff they’ve been injected with distributes itself around their insides).
There are a few things it won’t see though. It’s a gamma detector and Polonium-210, for example, is effectively a pure alpha emitter. So the FSB men who did for Alexander Litvinenko and, perhaps, Yasser Arafat were able to bring it in on a plane without fear of setting any alarms off.
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Er, why?
As a detector it’s a more capable detector than a GM tube. Why @dom might want it I’ve no idea. But then why do grown-up people own remote-controlled toy cars ? It’s a talking point I suppose (or running and screaming perhaps).
I did actually borrow a dosimeter from work once for the Nuc Med hospital coffee shop experience. The RPS who lent it to me actually started swearing when he read it out after I returned it.
Although apparently it’s good with Radon for example as it picks up its decay product.
Because I love this stuff, I have some ‘hot’ old watch dials and some radioactive plates and glasses (fiesta ware and uranium glass) and will definitely take it shopping at antique shops. I’m also trained at work for this sort of stuff so have an extra interest that way. They had rather a large increase in the training and improvement in the equipment since the Salisbury incident
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One of my dials is rather ‘hot’ it appears
Radium 226 for anyone who is interested
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Barclays payments gone down.
I’m watching my wife get more and more gibbery as apparently it’s pay day, tax day, and she’s sort of responsible for the UK’s payment system risks!
Never seen such domestic angst.
Sorry to hear.
I was cross enough at 08:30 when Smile Banking was down for an hour. It’s been fine since though. And I’m just a customer.
Over a million payments still back logged.
She’s fine. I’ve just never seen so many texts and emails at this time of night. Barclays fault, but she has something to do with making sure they are set up for this not to happen!
Suspect a lot of people will be more angry!
It’s IT.
Stopping it all going unexpectedly tits up literally isn’t A Thing. Someone somewhere has fucked with it. Very likely someone who’s allowed to.
I will more places adopted AA’s nuke cycle.
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That would explain why my card was declined three times in the supermarket earlier.
Had to pay for the booze with my money instead. 
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venturing into the veg drawer in the fridge.
I’ve been living on leftovers so far
but they’re finite.
WTF am I supposed to do with half a fucking turnip?
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Re-run Burns Night ?
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That’s actually not a bad idea. I like a bit of haggis.
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