We regularly listened to you when we lived in Truro.Ìý We now live in Cyprus, where you would find the weather forecasts a lot easier - "sunny".Ìý Have a great retirement.
George and Josephine - Cyprus
Thank you for all your lovely humour and jokes over the years. I looked forward to your forecasts every morning on radio and I can tell you now tis by your forecast that we went sailing or no in the Carrick Roads at the weekends with the Falmouth working boat fleet. On behalf of myself and wife and crew of our boat, have a very busy retirement and do all the things that you can with Margaret and take time to smell the roses and feel the gentle breeze.
Brian Chenoweth - St Mawes
Hi Chris we will miss you for one simple reason, we will now have no one to shout at when it rains which means we can't work. Have a good retirement from all the Pengelly farmers.
Slim - Helston
Thank you for your great sense of humour and your singing has made me laugh. Your weather forecasts have been very good most of the time! Enjoy retirement you will be missed.
Coral - Boyton
Good luck for the future, have a lovely long retirement. All the best and enjoy the lie in. We will miss you doing the weather and banter with Laurence!
Liz - Camborne
Good luck mate. I hope you have a long, happy and fit retirement, and enjoy your weekend parties.
Alwyn Smitham - Hayle
Chris, You are a star!ÌýHope you received my card earlier.ÌýJust Be Happy, both you and Margaret. I have a son in the Met Office, presently with the MMU in Iraq. He also sends best wishes.ÌýDo hope you come back to Radio Cornwall in any job sometime.
Diana Lightwing - St Keverne
Just to say he'll be a hard act to follow is putting it mildy.What charisma, what jokes, what next! Happy retirement to one of Hayle's finest.
Roger and Carol
Chris, I shall miss your banter with Pam and James mornings when I'm going to work. Can you do a bit of part time forecasting mornings? Have a happy retirement.
Alan
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Good luck & Happy Birthday Chris. We will all miss your dulcet tones in the mornings giving us very accurate weather forecasts, but now how will we know when the International Space Station is passing overhead now you have gone?
Derek Smith - Playing Place
GOOD LUCK CHRIS YOUR HUMOUR WILL BE MISSED.
BREN & H. BUGLE
I never did manage to see the space station despite your constant updates on it! Niether did I discover WHY do the moon and sun appear upon occasions? Your wonderful informative weather slots will be much missed in this household. Your humour and your Cornish voice livened up the day. Thank you - enjoy your retirement, you deserve it. But what will we do now?
Florence
Radio Cornwall is never going to be the same again without you...what a loss to us all...all the best for you and Margaret in your retirement...be good!
Jill Fountain - Newlyn
James, Pam and yourself made a wonderful trio to wake up to in the morning.ÌýYou will be greatly missed. Enjoy your retirement. From one OAP to another, you will wonder how you ever had time to work.
Sylvia from St Agnes
Chris, I was a window cleaner from '85 to '97 to both comm and domestic properties. In order to reduce the chance of falling off my ladders of all shapes and sizes and getting too wet for comfort I religiously listened to your predictions. In all those years you never let me down.(Well, maybe once). Well done that met man and bon voyageÌýlad
Mick Brummell - Truro
Chris, Working with aircraft at Newquay and now at Plymouth I always listened intently for severe weather, fog etc that may upset the flights. Really accurate stuff and you will be missed. I also liked to listen to the astronomical bits but still haven't seen the Space Station. I'm due to retire next year and hope I can afford to. All the best.
Steve Waller - Warleggan
Thanks Chris for a wonderful mix of humour and weather in the mornings - you brought real colour to Spotlight as well.Ìý Best wishes for your retirement.Ìý
Derek Crisp - St Austell
Every good wish for your retirement - relax & enjoy. WeÌýshall all miss your forecast & your sense of humour.Ìý Good Luck to you & Margaret.
Mary Yelland - Lanivet
All the very best in your retirement Chris.I will miss that voice on radio. I have always considered you come over as a natural with no bull. Enjoy many years of leisure.
Peter Crago - St Austell.
We are very sorry you are leaving as we have enjoyed listening to you so much. We have especially enjoyed your jokes & droll input when you have been on with Pam Spriggs. Even your weather news has been interesting! We will miss you very much, but hope you have a wonderful retirement with Margaret.
Yvonne & Don - St Austell
Chris STUMBLES into 91Èȱ¬ studio and says "Laurence please REED this forecast - I have a SMALL problem - I went into a CHURCH YARD and fell into a rabbit WARREN - I got dirt and SPRIGGS all over the script.
No JOY for me but good as GOULD for you - please be a pal and BAIL(y) me out!
Valerie - USA
All the best Chris the team won't be the same without you. Enjoy those extra hours in bed.
Mary & Pete from Truro
Farewell Chris the weather reports just won't be the same with out you. I hope you will come back on air from time to time just to say Hello. Well all the best and make sure you stay happy
Jack Landry
Sad to hear that our favourite weatherman Chris Stumbles is retiring, I for one will miss his dolcet tones, dont know why but when ever I heard his voice it always made me smile, even when on the way to work!
Please pass on my best wishes to him, and may he have a well earned long and happy retirement...
Paul Barnes - St Eval
"You have been essential listening every morning, and I'm so sorry we won't be hearing you any more, Chris - even though we haven't actually spoken for a good 40 years or more.Ìý You might just remember me - Falmouth Colts cricket, mid-1960s.Ìý In my book, you're an absolute star.Ìý Without wishing to embarrass you , today, if you didn't already know before, you will have gained some idea of just how loved you are in this county.Ìý Now take that 'idea' and multiply it tenfold and you'll be a little nearer the mark.Ìý Happy retirement, Chris, and if ever you feel like meeting up for a pint or whatever, just get in touch.Ìý I'm not exactly a pint man these days . . . but for you I'd happily make an exception!"
Mike Truscott from Falmouth
"Happy Birthday & a happy retirement Chris, I have listened to the radio all morning and it's pretty obvious how much you're thought of from all the tributes that have been pouring in by various means. I'm a member of a farming family who like so many others have found your forecasts so invaluable, and personally for hanging out my washing!!Ìý You are going to be so missed - both for your accurate forecasting & the friendly banter with all the presenters. Good luck Chris."
Sandra from Helston
"As a local sailor I've always listened for your sea forecasts with interest trying to extract the info I need from the awful puns. Good lock Stumbles. You're irreplaceable and you'll be missed."
Steve Cooksey from Launceston
"Good Luck and a Happy Retirement Chris. You will be missed but my aim is improving! Seriously we will miss your corny jokes and your lively personality."
Hugs and Kisses, Emily & Jean xxx
"I'll miss your lovely Cornish voice in my kitchen in the mornings-it'll be like a member of the family moving away. 'Penn-bloedh lowen'(Happy Birthday)and 'Chons da gans dha omdennans' (Good luck with your retirement) All the best."
Diana from St Austell
"Happy Retirement Chris we will all miss you"
Jean Daybell from Helston
"Thank you for a very special service you have given us over the past 7 years, our kind of humour too. You will be missed but we shall have happy memories. Happy retirement to you and your wife, best wishes."
Peter & Grace Hill from St Austell
"We are sorry that you have left us for the last time and our early mornings will not be the same now. Have a good retirement and keep up the walking and other interests to help you keep your youthfull outlook. "
Best Wishes Marion & Maurice Holden from Launceston
"Good luck Chris, enjoy those "lie-ins"Ìý we will miss your voice and, yes, even the bad jokes!"
Corinne & Allan from St Just
"We will all miss you sense of humour and quick whit.
Have a great retirement Chris :-)"
David G from Par
"Happy retirement Chris. Thankyou for your cheerfulness and vast knowledge of so many subjects which have made your forecasts so interesting and memorable. You will be missed like an old friend."
Johno from Saltash
"Everyone of a certain age remembers the dream team of Val, John and Peter on Blue Peter, much in the news at the moment.Ìý I will never forgive Lesley Judd for joining and breaking up the team!!Ìý The similar dream team of radio Cornwall morning programme kept me going on the drive to work every day, Chris, Pam and James.Ìý Now the team has been broken up - The new 'Lesley Judd' of Radio Cornwall has a great deal to live up to.Ìý Thank you for the laughs and wonderful information that came my way every morning.Ìý Chris you will be very much missed."
Lucy Whitman from Truro
"Many Happy Birthday wishes and good luck in your retirement. Hope that you and Margaret enjoy many years of leisure together in this beautiful part of the world ... liquid sunshine or not."
Carol from Chacewater
"We shall miss your weather forecasts and all that other information you give us, especially your jokes!.
Good luck in your retirement, enjoy yourself and happy flying."
Christina and Mike Selmes from Mawgan
"Have a great retirement. We've all enjoyed your humour over the years (honest!) and it won't be the same without you."
Andrew from St Agnes
"Hi Chris, Best wishes on your retirement - enjoy!Ìý Will miss you listening to you on the breakfast show."
John & Donna from Bodmin Moor
"Chris I listened to your last forecast at 1215 today. You were, as always,a top presenter to the end. The way you delivered that forecast so professionaly with mayhem going on around you was tops. Happy retirement and good luck. Who will keep Pam and James in order now?"
Maggie and Tony from Plymouth
"Good luck on your retirement Chris, we will all miss you. It will not be the same."
Miranda Westmactt from Luxulyan
"Hi Chris,Ìý Hope you have a long & happy retirement. We shall miss your humour on the breakfast show."
Barbara Hosken-Johns from Newlyn
"Old weathermen never disappear they reign forever."
Sticky in Trewoon
"Have a very happy retirement Chris we have never met but it seems like i have known you for years. Thanks."
Barry Spencer-Amos from Connor Downs
"Will miss your lovely "burr" and sense of humour. Hope to see you on Gwitian beach in totally relaxed mood.
Happy retirement and a long one!"
Roger James from Illogan
"Liked your style, will be hard to replace on Radio Cornwall.All the best."
Simon from Falmouth
"Happy Birthday & a happy retirement Chris, I have listened to the radio all morning and it's pretty obvious how much you're thought of from all the tributes that have been pouring in by various means. I'm a member of a farming family who like so many others have found your forecasts so invaluable, and personally for hanging out my washing!!Ìý You are going to be so missed - both for your accurate forecasting & the friendly banter with all the presenters. Good luck Chris."
Sandra from Helston
"Sorry to see you go,best wishes for the future.xxx"
Marie from Perranporth
"Always write a list when going shopping, only go when you need to, even if it's on special offer if you don't need it don't buy it. Only spend cash as you notice that it is real money you are parting with."
Jackie from Newton Abbott
"All the best for the future Chris! Emma Lloyd and yourself leaving 91Èȱ¬ Cornwall in the same year has left a big hole to fill...u will be missed by ur colleagues and listeners alike!"
Robert from Walsall
"I think the funniest thing I remember is David Chris and Pam trying to read How to give a cat a pill,It was some time ago but had them and everyone else in fits of laughter. happy retirement Chris."
Bridget from Launceston
"Dear Chris - you've put a smile on my face many times and I shall miss your whacky jokes.Ìý Happy retirement to you and Margaret."
Averil in Penzance
"On retirement, consider coming to OZ, where the weather is always warm and sunny with blue skies and calm winds.Ìý Shall really miss you and the awful jokes.Ìý ENJOY retirement, it's wonderful."
Jane and Dave in Perth, Australia
"We'll miss you sense of humour and quick wittedness - have a great retirement.Ìý The weather won't be so interesting now"
Jenny in Falmouth
"I'll really miss your quirky humour, Chris. It's just like my husband's. Radio Cornwall won't be the same without you. Good luck for the future and enjoy all the leisure time you will now have. I retired a year ago and after a 45 odd years of working it's really lovely to be able to relax and do absolutely nothing if you feel like it!"
Patricia from Penryn
"Have a good retirement Chris, everyone asks me how i get the weather right so often, hopefully your replacement is as good so i can go on taking the credit. I have enjoyed all the banter with Whitey and Debs, you'll be missed for sure, have a good one."
Non slip from Falmouth
"EnjoyÌý your reirement Chris, mornings won't be the same without you. x"
Gill from Helston
"Chris, Many thanks not only for good weather forecasting for us holiday makers, but for hours of light hearted comments and jokes particularly on the DW show. It was a pleasure to have met you on the occasion of our 25th wedding anniversary in 2006, whilst holidaying in Cornwall. You will be remembered fondly as the jovial weather man from Hayle by both myself and my wife. I can thoroughly recommend retirement. Best wishes for the future."
Ian from Stratford upon Avon
"Good luck Chris, I will miss not having you talking in my ear whilst I am having my morning cuppa."
Mary
"I will miss the detail Chris gives in his forecasts - no one does it better."
John in Carbis Bay
"Very best wishes to Chris Stumbles - the weather won't be the same without his unique style!"
Iris in Carbis Bay
"Best wishes to Chris for his retirement. I will miss his accurate forecasts -Ìý the dog and I will get wet more often now! I will also miss his wit!"Ìý
Kathryn in St Austell
"Best wishes to Stumbles and he's joining the best club in the world - the retirement club."
Capt Sam Guy is on a dredger in Hayle Harbour - but usually lives on Isles of Scilly
"All the farmers in Cornwall wish you good luck for your retirement. Good luck - you'll be missed."
Paul in StithiansÌý
"The pavements in Cornwall are wet today not because of the rain but because of all the ladies crying at the thought that Chris will not be doing the weather anymore!"
Margaret from Hayle
"Nobody can do the weather like Chris. What about the weather explanations and the satellite information? Nobody else bothers to explain things like he does. He's the best - very sorely missed!"
Stan & Marie in Camborne
"Stumbles retiring at 60 - the lazy young tyke ! ! We will really miss him. I wish him and Margaret all the very best for the future."
Bill in Trispen
"Happy retirement to Chris - we will miss him, especially his news about the space station."
Pat and Bob in Long Rock
"I wish Chris all the best and thank him for his wit, weather and wisdom."
Rose in Mylor
"Best wishes to Chris and what will happen to the space station?"
Paul in Heamoor
"Good luck for retirement and good health. We always go walking after listening to Chris's report as he's always spot on with the forecast. I shall miss your cheeky humour."
Donna in Launceston
"I will truly miss Chris - He is a lovely man and is delightful."
Ann in St Ives
"Here's wishing Chris a long and happy retirement. Thanks for the jokes through your time at 91Èȱ¬ Radio Cornwall. The weather will never be the same."
Maurice and Maureen in Bodmin
"We'll miss Chris's sense of humour - he always brings sunshine even when it's raining."
John Roche in Penwithick
"I will miss Chris's accurate. understandable and good natured weather forecast. He will be missed."
Jennifer from Mawnan Smith
"I wish Chris all the best for his retirement"
Reg on The Lizard
"The weather, sunshine in Devon and a big black cloud in Cornwall. Chris is leaving the building. We are very sad because it wont be the same. Chris please don't go! All the best. It will be very hard to get anyone like you. Take care"Ìý
Your fan, Sue
"Happy Birthday Chris. Enjoy your retirement. I will miss the quips and humour between you Pam and James."Ìý
Pam Shapcott from Skinners Bottom
"Isn't 60 the new 40 - by my reckoning he still has another 20 years"
Chris in Mitchell
"I will miss Chris's forecasts - they are the most accurate on the radio."
Hilary from over the border in Devon
"I will miss Chris's weather and the part he played on the breakfast team. I will especially miss the space station. I hope he has a happy and long retirement."
Freida Lane from Wadebridge
"I hope all goes well for Chris's retirement. He will be missed."
Barry Pearce from St Austell
"I will miss Chris and hope he has a happy retirement. I will also miss the banter with James and Pam."
Elaine in St Ives
"Chris has been doing the forecast as long as I've been living here - he is very much part of my Cornish life and I'll even miss his jokes."
Jenny in Mylor
"Happy retirement to Chris - I don't know what I'll do without him."
Gill in Probus
"Happy retirement."
Jo who lives between Leedstown and Townsend
"A very happy birthday to Chris. Good luck to him for his retirement. We will miss his silly sense of humour."
Debs in Stithians.
"Chris you have a good retirement I think its going to be a bit boring with you've gone. It's been fun hearing you. Take care mate."Ìý
Tony and Annika
"Good old Chris, he often stumbled! - but a stalwart chap - he didn't fall - good luck"Ìý
Jim in Torpoint
"Chris you have a good retirement mate you deserve it. Take care we will miss you"
From us all at the Abba Fan Club
"Chris isn't just a weather man -Ìý he is a great entertainer"
From the Nacker Man
"My favourite memory of Chris is when he told the tale about a Russian woman falling down some steps then there was stunned silence in the studio!"
Carole in Illogan
"Best wishes to Chris on his retirement. I will sorely miss his quick wit. Cannot a slot be found for him on another program?!?"
Janet in Launceston
"We wish Chris a long and happy retirement. He is one of the best forecasters we've ever heard. We love the laughter he causes.He brings so much happiness into people's days."
Tom and Pearl Coombe from Carlyon Bay
"Happy Birthday to Chris. I'm a farmer and his accurate forecasts are vital for us. He is a great bloke. A good allrounder."
Morwenna near Kilkhampton
"Here's wishing him a happy retirement. They will miss his weather and all the interesting bits like water devining and the space station".
Tony and Jo in St Newlyn East
"Happy retirement."
Susan in Pendeen
"I will miss his forecasts and his information about the space station."
Rita Cope in Rock says
"Its time for Chris to hang up that green jacket that he always wears when he does Spotlight's weather"
Susan in Par
"We would like to thank Chris for all his forecasts and we'll miss him very much!"
Ursula and Percy Hughes from Carnon Downs
"Thanks to Chris for all the extra weather bits like satellite information, the space shuttle and explanations as to the weird lights in the sky."
Mark in Feock
"Feet up Chris. Thanks for all the rain. We'll miss you".
Heamoor gardeners Lynn and Steve
"I will miss Chris's accurate forecasts".
Denis from Fowey
"Happy birthdayÌýChris very sad to here you are retiring. Cornwall will miss a great weatherman."
Very sadÌýSusan
"Very best wishes to Chris and many thanks for his detailed forecasts which by dividing up the county have saved our haymaking year after year. His quick wit and oddball humour with the best team on Radio Cornwall will be greatly missed. He is a hard act to follow".
From Rose near Saltash.
"Many thanks for your weather forecasts over the years! Good luck".
Jean & Bob Woodman.
"We will miss Chris Stumbles with his mumbles about the sun and the rain as from today he wont tell us again".
All the best from sue +vic in blackwater
"Dear Chris, will miss hearing your forecasts and "jokes". Hope you have a long and healthy retirement. Don't get under margaret's feet too much! Best wishes.
Penny in Saltash.
"Happy Birthday!! Good Luck Chris I will miss you immeasurably!! As a farmer I really appreciate all your localised forecasting, you have been brilliant! You even saved our hay a few years ago when I texted in and you gave me a personal forecast, Thank you! I' m so glad I kissed you on the golf buggy."
Jackie
"Please wish Chris Stumbles - a happy retirement. I will miss your lovely voice and your great sense of humour"
Cathy in Penzance
"Happy birthday Chris, you will be missed so much"
Chris and Steve in Summercourt
"Good luck Chris, we will miss your sensible part of the show in the mornings, plus your vast knowledge on various subjects....., even though most of the time you made them up, best wishes"
Janet in Four Lanes
"Will miss your cheerfulness Chris"
Janet in Redruth
"Happy retirement Chris"
Ìýfrom the Trescobeas gang of 50 years ago.
"Happy Birthday and Happy Retirement to our lovely Chris. Will miss you, good luck for the future. Love you loads"Ìý
Vron and John, Lorr and Al, and Dottie.
"Helena & I would like to wish you a happy retirement our friend, so to a great man this message we do send.ÌýÌý Who else could tell the jokes like our Chris could do, sometimes they used to put my Helena in a pickle and a stew.Ìý But joking apart, Helena and myself shall miss you mate so our sincere best wishes we send to you from the bottom of our hearts.ÌýTake care our pal"
from your Helena & your Poet pal
"Best wishes to Chris. He will be missed as he makes the forecast interesting. Will miss his sense of humour. Happy birthday and retirement"Ìý
Janet in St. Buryan.
"All the best to Chris and Margaret. Wishing them a lovely retirement. Missing the most mellodic voice with a touch of mischief and seeing him on TV was a treat"Ìý
Beth in Camborne
"Chris's weather forecasts are the best . It's the best thing which happens in the morning as well as his sense of humour"
Richard Hall who sails around the south coast of Cornwall
"Happy retirement Chris"Ìý
The tooth fairies
"Happy retirement Chris! Your dulcet voice will be much missed"
Maureen & Don Peters
"Happy retirement to Chris. He sounds like my insurance agent or a vicar and he's got a great sense of humour"
Christine in Truro
"I wish Chris all the best for his retirement. He is a very good weather man and I liked his reports on the space station"
Sidney in St Austell
"I will miss Chris's weather and his information about the space station"
Stan the Taxi man
"What a pleasure it's been to hear an unaffected Falmouth voice"
Michael in Hayle Bay
"Thanks to Chris for his weather. It's been invaluable in my job too as I'm a sales man."
Simon in St Austell
"You forecast is easy to understand. I will miss Chris greatly"
Jenny from Penzance
