New Listing for The Woodlands Lifestyle Centre

We recently visited "The Woodlands" and have now listed the businesses in their Lifestyle Centre on a new Megaplex web page. The Woodlands is an office park off Woodlands Drive and Western Service Road, Woodmead, with large open landscaped space and a game park. The Woodlands Lifestyle Centre has useful amenities for the businessperson such as a very friendly Mugg & Bean restaurant, dry cleaner, print shop, nursery school and a gym. The gym area also houses a beautician, biokinetics, a dentist, optometrist, and physiotherapist. The Parkrun fitness programme does a 5 km run in the park on Saturday mornings followed by a get-together at the Mugg and Bean restaurant.

To help you get ahead in public speaking, presentations and leadership. there's also a Toastmasters Club that is open to the public. They meet at 18:00 on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of most months at Pendo Energy, 22B The Woodlands, 26 Western Service Rd, Woodlands, Sandton.

Odd Jobs

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Patricia O’Day, Bend, Oregon in AWADmail Issue 855.
 

New on the Block, Movers and Shakers  Back to top

• Aurora Medical Aesthetics (LG1 under the Pharmacy), Ground in Grayston Shopping Centre – Botox & Fillers, Vitamin Drips, Chemical Peels, Laser Therapy, Microneedling, Plasma Therapy,: Treatment of: Hair Restoration, Sclerotherapy, Scars & Burns, Body Contouring, Hair Removal, Pigmentation, Ageing, Fine Lines and Wrinkles, Acne, Acne Scars, Vein Removal, Stretch Marks.
• Newly Listed in The Woodlands Office Park Lifestyle Centre
• The Little Ashford Preschool in Woodlands Office Park – Just east (up the slope) of the upper parking at the Lifestyle Centre.
• Mugg & Bean, Shop 004 in Woodlands Office Park – Restaurant. All-day breakfast, light meals, toasted sandwiches and snacks. Generous portions and bottomless coffee. Open Mon–Fri 06:00-17:00, Sat 07:00-12:00.
• Beautician in Woodlands Office Park.
• Biokinetics in Woodlands Office Park.
• Dentist in Woodlands Office Park.
• Dream Body Fitness in Woodlands Office Park – Gym for individuals who want results, are positive and value health. Hard work and achievement using time-tested methods, not shortcuts.
• Minuteman Press, Shop 003 in Woodlands Office Park – Printers. Full service printing & copy centre, Brochures, Letterheads, Business cards, Rubber Stamps, Graphics designs. Open Mon–Fri 09:00-17:00.
• Optometrist in Woodlands Office Park.
• Standard bank ATM in Woodlands Office Park – Open 24 hours.
• Physiotherapist in Woodlands Office Park.
• Pressed In Time in Woodlands Office Park – Domestic and commercial laundry and dry-cleaning. Carpet cleaning. Mattress cleaning. Alterations. Shoe repairs. Open M-F 07:00-18:00.
• V Nails in Woodlands Office Park.
• Parkrun in Woodlands Office Park – 5km run –you against the clock. Every Saturday at 08:00, but entrance gates close strictly 07:45. Entrance with barcode. Post-parkrun coffee at Mugg and Bean.
• Woodlands Office Park Toastmasters Club near Woodlands Office Park – Meet at 16:00, 1st and 3rd Tuesday of most months at Pendo Energy, 22B The Woodlands, 26 Western Service Rd, Woodlands, Sandton. GPS: -26.058527, 28.088343.

Restaurant Review by Judith Back to top

***** Ocean Basket, Morningview Shopping Centre

A thoroughly decadent meal, our drinks were Appletizer and Ocean Basket's own dry white. I indulged in oysters and my partner in sole with great chips! We stretched ourselves to dessert. My partner had ice cream with decadent hot sauce and I went for an Irish coffee.

Thoroughly enjoyable meal and great service from Lebani.

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Funny Language, English...

If government bureaucracy has gone mad, can we call it “bureaucrazy”?

Out of Their misery:  Back to top

• Lola Boutique, Shop GF44 in Rivonia Village – Ladies fashion: Mainly local designs. Imported shoes.
• Natalie's Flowers in Woodlands Office Park – Was Shop 5, Lifestyle Centre. A family-run florist for 20 years.

Africa – the Duck Continent (II):

Julius says that a waterfowl that sits on the mountain-top must be a "peaking duck".

Election Update

Mmusi Maimane, well-known Leader of the well-known Democratic Alliance, writes:

[At SONA], President Ramaphosa showed that under the ANC, the State of the Nation was rather a State of No Action.

Whatever his intentions, the President is constrained by the ANC, is unable to act, and will not be able to stop his party’s intention to expropriate private land, homes and businesses without compensation.

Time is running out to save South Africa. Time is running out to save your right, and the right of your children, to own property without the risk of it being taken away by government.

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Overheard at the Checkout

"How did the visit to the Doctor go?"

"He said everything I have is 'age-appropriate'."

"That's good..."

"It wasn't as reassuring as you might think: At some stage it will be 'age-appropriate' for me to die!"