Gong Hei Fat Choy!

Or Happy Lunar New Year! It's the Year of the Rabbit, reckoned to be the luckiest sign of the Zodiac.

I've used one of my wealth toads as a subject as I'm running out of Chinese objects to photograph.

I had registered for a talk with the RPS Travel Group on Chile this afternoon. Bit of a cockup at the outset when the click to join the meeting didn't work, but management sorted it out.

Possibly a slow rise in temperature? The frost has melted from the roofs but there is still some lying snow. I think it will be Tuesday before we begin to see the start of milder weather.