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Shame about the weather though...

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 Click here for Audio .  I don’t know if you watch breakfast TV, but one of the BBC’s most appreciated weather forecasters, Carol Kirkwood, retired from the BBC after 28 years last week. Now if you are not familiar with Carol, she has a warm lilting Scottish accent and for nearly 3 decades has not only provided the weather but also reported from events like Wimbledon, Chelsea Flower show and has even featured on Strictly. Click on the BBC weather or the Christ Church Huntingdon Blog for a link ( here ) to some of her funniest moments. Well it must have been quite emotional for her as she did her last forecast, and glowing reports from various journalists flooded in from people she had worked with. I wonder if you’ve done something lately that could have been for the last time. Perhaps it’s chatting to an old friend who is no longer with us. Perhaps it’s being able to open a jam jar. Perhaps it’s more light hearted like running   the 100m in well, under 1 minute. N...