Daniel Stoddart

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January 10th 2009

I apologise for not updating this. Well, sort of. I have just been having too much fun and also dealing with the flu on Thursday. Thank goodness, for those pills that you have to show your license for at the chemist. It is just as well we did not get tickets to the crowning of Miss Priscilla as I spent 18 hours in bed on Thursday. This left poor Chad to wander around Peak Hill. Excitingly, the other club was open and offered, yet again, the stunning combination of Chinese/Australian cuisine. We are blessednwith an incredible culinary heritage in our country. Which reminds me, on Thursday I had a lamb roast at the Broadway Hotel (this is my favourite Parkes Pub). The simple addition of two pieces of butter white bread transported me back to my ... read more



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January 7th 2009

As a relatively small person, I am quite enjoying sleeping in my little bunk bed that makes me feel like Gulliver. The mattress is less than posturepedic and leaving the AC on at night led to the cabin becoming as cold as your bottleo. Unfortunately, I did not have one of those green quilted jump suits worn by the Jewells Employees. Anyway, today we strayed into Parkes. It is quite a small town. 10,000.00 people which will basically double over the weekend. We stopped at the Dish. I am sure I have been to it as a small boy but it has faded in my recollection. It is actually quite impressive to realise that the moon landing was broadcast through and even more amazing to realise that bloke from the M & M's commercial appeared in ... read more



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January 6th 2009

There is no way that I would be in Parkes in a polyester Elvis suit in the next week. I applaud all of those who do it. It is just amazing. It is so hot. We had a good run from Newcastle today. The dogs looked at me with brown eyed eyes that were strangely dog like as they were left at Veronica's Concentration Camp. I think I heard the life is beautiful score as they were taken away. We left from Thornton and stopped for a meal at Dunedoo Pub. It was quite extraordinary and I have never attended an establishment where Passion Pop was listed as a Fine Sparkling Wine. However, at $7.00 a bottle it was appropriately priced. In true Newcastle style, we had, wait for it, a schnitty. But because we are ... read more



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January 4th 2009

I have to confess that I have been a little bit excited about my odyssey to Parkes. It has always been a mythological place so distant and shrouded in mystery that I have been afraid to pierce the veil in January to find it is just a small country town that eavesdropped on Apollo 11 and gets rather hot in January and is possibly full of well, bogans. For me, it is a pilgrimage, not unlike the muslim's going to mecca, the jews to the wailing wall and for people too tight to go to Graceland due to the GFC and the damn dollar, the Parkes Elvis Festival. I like the idea of the festival as it has its roots in Australian ingenuity. January is hot in Parkes. Nothing happens. If you have money, you go ... read more






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