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Dr John HW
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All these blogs were, as ever, with entertaining and give a great sense of a fantastic trip. However, the presence of a very great deal of drink assumes an uncomfortably high profile in some of them! That day with beer, cocktails and goodness-knows-what-else sounds a real Bacchanalian orgy and I'm glad you didn't suffer alcohol poisoning! Niagara sounds incredible and it is always difficult to put an experience like that into words. A lot of philosophers and linguists have noted this before because words simply convey an experience and are not the experience themselves. Phenomenologists have therefore concentrated on capturing the essence of a given experience by stripping language back to repeated and frequently occurring descriptive words. It's more complicated than that of course, but you don't do too badly yourself! All good here - Mum and I did a 5 mile kayak trip up the Adur from Shoreham Beach up towards the cement works - great fun. Crystal Palace have finished 10th - in the top half of the Premiership, so a great season, all in all. Looking forward to your next despatches as you move west.