After 15 years in Australia’s Blue Mountains, Stilgherrian is moving back to Sydney. The core moving costs and most of the disruptions are now covered, thank you, but more is needed to cover this transformation, a backlog of health-related tasks, and more terrible podcasts.

Hello. I’m Stilgherrian. You may know me as a freelance media producer, journalist, podcaster, and more — all part-time these days for various health reasons.

(You’ll also know that my name is only the one “Stilgherrian”, but hey, databases.)

In 2011 I moved to Wentworth Falls, “just for a few weeks”. And I’m still there. Finally, a decade and a half later, a good friend has invited me to share his newly-purchased apartment in Campsie in Sydney’s inner south-west.

But cashflows are... not good. Mostly because my freelance work has dried up temporarily.

So I’m seeking your support for the removals — both pulling a household’s worth of goods out of storage (about $1,500) and transferring my everyday possessions down from the Mountains (around $500), as well as something to live on while all this is happening (see below).

There’s bound to be some random unexpected costs as well.

A lot of the stuff I've had in storage for all this time is no longer needed. Some I’ll sell. Some I’ll give away. And everyone who’s ever pledged more than $20 to my projects — in this or any other campaign or just randomly — will be able to join the SEKRIT livestreams or whatever other first-bite methods I invent to give you priority.

Most of those boxes contain books. But there’s also vinyl records, CDs, probably some DVDs, and who knows what else.

The Great Unboxening begins on Tuesday 17 March.

As for my living costs, February was a bit of a write-off and March hasn’t been much better.

This crowdfunder also replaces the usual quarterly campaign I’d been running on Pozible, the most recent one being The 9pm Summer Series 2025.

When you contribute to this crowdfunder, you’ll also be eligible for the kinds of rewards mentioned over there. I’ll list them all here in an update very soon.

I therefore set the initial target at $5,000. That included the moving costs and me making four special-guest episodes of The 9pm Edict podcast in autumn. We’d also knock out a couple episodes of Another Untitled Music Podcast.

This includes the business costs of running the podcast as well as my own living costs.

As I say, that first target has been reached. But in the coming three months there’s also some specialist medical costs to address my sleep problems, a whole bunch of dental work which has been neglected (last estimate was over $2,000), maybe a new pair of glasses, and more.

And although I now have one small freelance job on the books, I still need to find some more work.

Hence, a new goal of $9,000, which would help cover all of those things as well as four more special-guest episodes of The 9pm Edict.

Please consider pledging your support. And if you have any questions, please let me know.

So that’s the story for now. I’m Stilgherrian. Wash your hands.

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Update 15 March: The initial target has been achieved! Thank you so much. And the timelines are solid now: