I know this is picky but Thorpe Bay is not the penultimate event in the series (unless Grafham or Northampton have been cancelled)! Probbaly Zoe was just too tired from all the hiking out ;)
The ultimate is the last and final item in a series. The related words penultimate and antepenultimate refer to the second-to-last and the third-to-last item in a series, respectively.
sounds like a career in National 12 publicity is awaiting you with big words like that at this time of the morning...
;D
Mike
Must remember when bribing my daughter into eating her dinner to tell her that she is enjoying her antepenultimate spoonful!!!! :D
...and no more counting to three. " This is the antepenultimate time I'm going to ask you to do this".
Please don't blame Zoe for the editorial inaccuracies in the report - all down to Mandy and me I am afraid!
We obviously couldn't see beyond Grafham ... now that I realise the ultimate event is at Northampton we could even qualify for the Gill series.
Cheers, John
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