Earlier this morning I went to the cashpoint, only to discover £120 sticking out of the machine. No sign of anyone about, even after a couple of minutes of waiting.

So, am I an idiot for picking up the money and taking it in to the Tesco the machine’s attached to, then handing it in to the manager? I doubt taking it myself would have been illegal – but I’ve been pondering this all day and am now beginning to kick myself. What would you have done?

In other news, sorry for the lack of posting – I’ve been insanely busy with books to edit, articles to write, and insanely long shifts to work, so have had no time to discuss any of the many European political developments that have kicked off this month, from Gordon’s belated treaty signing to the surprise announcement that Putin’s successor is going to be one of his many anonymous former St Petersburg cronies who no one had ever thought of as a successor.

With any luck, I may be able to do a catch-up later this week. But, for now, I’m bloody knackered. (And no, I’m not looking forward to the Christmas holiday, because I’m not getting one – I’m working Christmas Day and Boxing Day, and am likely to only have about four days off – including weekends – between now and the end of January. Fun…)

Oh, and apologies to anyone who’s been unable to leave comments recently – I’ve had a couple of queries. It seems that the Bad Behaviour plugin for Wordpress decided that everyone on the internet is a spammer. Me included, in fact – it wouldn’t even let me post this until I disabled it…