Podcast: Covid alerts – cover-up or just a cock-up?
Is it a series of cover-ups or just another run of cock-ups? Either way NSW Health is making a mess of its covid alerts when it comes to apartment blocks.…
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Life is a lot rosier with some green in your scene
Gaze at any plants or trees you can see around you, breathe in deeply, smell the rich scents of nature and listen to the leaves rustling in the breeze (or…
Lockdown renos – it’s worse than we thought
The impact on people forced to stay in their apartments while building work goes on around them could be a lot more severe than originally thought. If the apartments undergoing…
NSW Health nudges the needle on reno rules
Health NSW has acknowledged (but only just) that strata residents deserve a bit more protection from noise and potential covid-19 transmission, in its latest Covid-19 advisory. Nudging the needle on…
NSW Health finally gets the strata mask message
It’s taken a few serious nudges but NSW Health has finally come round to the idea that ordering apartment residents in greater Sydney to wear masks on common property is…
Anger as NSW Health says strata ‘nothing special’
There is a strong possibility that officials in NSW Health who helped residents and managers with the potential Covid-19 outbreak at the Elan building in Sydney’s Kings Cross are feeling…
Podcast 72 – Move it … while the politicians lose it
Are you a gym junkie, hanging out for those palaces of pain, sweat and tears to re-open? Or are you just coming to the gradual conclusion that binge-watching TV while…
Working out the best way of working out at home
The commercial gyms are closed, as are the apartment block facilities managed by the more cautious strata committees. And the fitness gear store shelves have been cleared of dumbbells, kettle…
Podcast 66 – Locked down and loaded up with medical misinformation
In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap, Jimmy and Sue discuss Australia’s coronavirus lockdown and what it means to people living in apartments. There’s the whole issue of returned travellers settling…
Pets under threat from coronavirus overkill
With the debate about companion animals in apartments always bubbling just below the level of hysteria, the current outbreak of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) has many pet owners fearful that it could…
Flat Chat Wrap #25 – Working out what to do and what you need in your gym
JimmyT and fitness trainer Shannon Cleary discuss what works and what doesn’t in apartment block gyms … and what to do if you don’t have one.
Time running out for balcony barbecues
The new NSW legislation due to come in mid-year doesn’t specifically ban balcony barbecues – or even barbecue smoke – but it does make it a lot easier for those…