MK Today - Wednesday 22nd March 2023

A little reminder. The clocks go forward at 1am this coming Sunday 26^th March. Don’t know about you but I’ll be asleep at that time so I’ll set them before I go to bed.

Do they go forward or back. BRITISH SUMMER TIME – Spring – the clocks SPRING forward.

It was in 1916 the idea of advancing the clocks was introduced to aid the war effort. In 1972 it was named British Summer Time. I wasn’t around in 1916 but I was in 1972 and remember it well.

The very first time we had British Summer Time this was the UK’s Top Ten singles.

ONE– Without You by Nillson

TWO– Beg Steal Or Borrow by The New Seekers

THREE– American Pie by Don McLean

FOUR– Alone Again Naturally by Gilbert O’Sullivan

FIVE– Meet Me On The Corner by Lindisfarne

SIX– Mother And Child Reunion by Paul Simon

SEVEN– Hold Your Head Up by Argent

EIGHT– Got To Be There by Michael Jackson

NINE– Desiderata by Les Crane

TEN– Floy Joy by The Supremes

CLICK THE TITLES AND LISTEN ON YOUTUBE

FANTASTIC MUSIC ! But the most special melody in March 1972 is still at the top of nature’s pops here in March 2023.

My best friend Doggie Barnaby has a strict routine. 5.45am is tinkle time. Taking him downstairs I always stand in the garden with him while he does what he has to do. I look up to the trees, close my eyes and listen to the beautiful sound of the dawn chorus.

BARNABY is a dog. CAT Stevens is a singer. Before it failed and I was The Geriatric DJ doing the early morning show on Radio CRMK. The very first track I ever played was MORNING HAS BROKEN by Cat Stevens.

Morning has broken like the first morning

Blackbird has spoken like the first bird

We have blackbirds nesting in our garden. Come summer their little ones will turn up the volume of our garden’s dawn chorus.

Here’s a date for you to put in your diary, a special day here in Milton Keynes to listen to our city’s dawn chorus. WENESDAY 21^st June 2023 3.57am MIDSUMMER SOLSTICE. How many days between the dawn of British Summer Time and Midsummer ?  You do the Maths if you like.

I never tire of reminding my readers that the entire City of Milton Keynes was built around the

ley-line of Midsummer Boulevard. At 3.57 am on Wednesday 21^st June the sun will rise down the length of this street. The Milton Keynes Development Corporation planners with precise accuracy placed this on their strategic plan. As the new city was built everything was designed to meet Midsummer Boulevard when it was time for Central Milton Keynes to become a reality.

The plan was for the sun to rise over the hill but the cowboy planners within Milton Keynes DESTROYED this when a ridiculous shopping centre blocked the sun.

I have been playing some music in this edition of MK Today, let’s play something for Milton Keynes Cowboy Council: COWBOYS FROM HELL by Pantera. I wonder how many birds will sing their dawn chorus in Midsummer Boulevard of Midsummer Solstice. I’ll be there and will tell you.

But before then lets have a final bit of dawn chorus music. THE BIRDIE SONG from The Tweets. Were you a teenager in 1981 when that was a hit ? Do you remember the words to the disco dance ?

A little bit of this

And a little bit of that

And shake your xxxxx !