crowdfunding – Stilgherrian

30 March 202506 April 2025

Weekly Wrap 774: Magpies are so talonted, yeah?

Close-up photo of the feet of an Australian magpie perched on a wooden doorframe. On each foot, there are three curved toes with claws in front of the wooden frame and one behind. All is shiny and black. Slightly out of focus in the upper background is the lower part of the bird’s body, white feathers below and black chest and wing feathers above.

During my week of Monday 24 to Sunday 30 March 2025 the numbers of my magnificent Magpie Army started to swell again, with 18 of them visiting the other morning. I took a photo. I also produced a podcast, launched a crowdfunder, and squeezed out a newsletter.

09 December 202411 December 2024

Weekly Wrap 758: Fall down go splat, plus a train pic

Photo of a NSW TrainLink XPT power car number 2003 and its train on the platform at Orange station. Its sloped front has a single full-width window for the driver, and it’s painted blue with a yellow panel around the window and the three headlights at the top.

My week of Monday 2 to Sunday 8 December 2024 was dominated by the experience of me falling and breaking my face on Tuesday night. I’ll tell you more about that in a blog post very soon, although you may well have learned enough from my socials. But on the plus side my summer crowdfunder was successful. Hurrah!

01 December 202405 December 2024

Weekly Wrap 757: Welcome the Parrots of Productivity

Two tree stumps. On the left one, the taller of the two, are two Australian king parrots. The male has a bright red head and belly with back and wings in various shades of green. The female is a paler green with olive sections, and a red belly, although overall she is more drab.

My week of Monday 25 November to Sunday 1 December 2024 was finally a bit more productive. There’s yet another podcast. There were billable hours. And most importantly, we’re in the final stages of this season’s crowdfunder.

24 November 202424 November 2024

Weekly Wrap 756: Productivity with memories of bushfires

Looking from the concourse end of Sydney Central terminal down the tracks between two platforms. Sitting at the right-hand platform is a V-Set train, with its fluted stainless steel body and bright yellow and red nose. On the centre stabling track is another. There’s nothing at the left-hand platform. Overhead, it’s a sunny sky smudged with the brown of bushfire smoke.

My week of Monday 18 to Sunday 24 November 2024 began with a burst of productivity, including a bunch of podcast work, but the weekend brought fatigue. It also brought some random reflection on the bushfires of five years ago. Time no longer has any meaning.

18 November 202424 November 2024

Weekly Wrap 755: Watch out for the podcasts!

Nighttime, looking from a city footpath up towards a pair of surveillance cameras in their black domes under white bodies. Across the street are the upper floors of an art deco brick office building, in front of which is another surveillance camera, this one steerable.

My week of Monday 11 to Sunday 17 November 2024 included the making of podcasts and the launching of a crowdfunding campaign. Not much client work, but some much-needed socialising. It’s all about balance, right? And talking smut with Mark Humphries is always fun.

03 September 202423 September 2024

Weekly Wrap 744: It’s old fashioned, and I like it

A simple lowball glass containing a tan-brown liquid and ice cubes, a twist of orange, and a maraschino cherry. And in the background, through a window and out of focus, a quiet suburban street in the last, late afternoon.

OK, yes, this post is late. It covers the week of Monday 26 August to Sunday 1 September 2024, but it’s already late at night on 3 September. It may help that this Weekly Wrap includes two podcasts and a new crowdfunder, and not just the weekend’s social activities? Yes. Definitely.