The view from our new office window )we've moved up to the 15th floor)- taken 24 hours apart : yesterday the pollution rating was 250 ("extremely hazardous to heath") and today at 102 ("unhealthy for sensitive groups"). Anything above 80 is seen as "bloody bad" by world health authorities. Back in the UK it will be between 8 (semi rural) and 40 (traffic lights with standing traffic in the middle of Congleton). I have an app thing on my phone that tells me daily two sets of statistics : the official government figures and those published by the American Embassy - the first always about half of the second...I know which I believe...not that it matters because a quick look through the window tells me all I need to know...
**Interestingly, the song "What a difference a day makes" was written in Spanish as far back as 1934 by a Mexican composer Maria Grever and was known then as 'Cuando Vuelva A Tu Lado' ("When I Return To Your Side"). The English version was written by Stanley Adams and the Dorsey Brothers made it famous the same year...
Dinah Washington won a Grammy with her version in 1959 and it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998, and hers is the version most people remember (and you are singing to yourself in your head now) - although every cat & his dog has murdered it when doing cover versions of other people's stuff because they can't write their own anymore - the likes of Rod Stewart, Barry Manilow etc...
There you go...I'm a mine of (useless) information, aren't I? Why do I write this crap? And why do you read it?
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