I've been somewhat remiss in attending to PBase over the last couple of weeks, so I'm posting this on Saturday the 27th. There are only two days of February to go and that's only because this is a leap year. (How did that happen again so soon?)

This seems to be something to do with January and February. They seem to go faster than the rest of the year, then March hits us in the face before we even realise what has happened.

New year's day comes and we marvel in horror (if one can do such a thing) at how quickly the previous year went. 2015? We barely knew you.

In Australia the summer holiday season keeps ticking over to Australia Day on the 26th. Nobody seems to notice it go. Perhaps the heat is a distraction, perhaps the relative quiet of people still being away spending time with the family over school holidays. Next thing you know it's February, and its Chinese lunar new year. There are red lanterns everywhere, sculptures of the animals in the Chinese zodiac appear here and there around the city, and the lunar markets in Pyrmont open for yet another year.

But seemingly within days (in reality, a couple of weeks) those close down as we move towards middle and late February. Here we see the lunar markets packing up for another year; all that remains is this gantry with red lanterns lining it and a couple of trailers over to the left waiting to be hauled away.

And so once again two months of our lives seem to have evaporated without really being noticed. That's a tad depressing.