Tess Gerritsen

Top Ten bestselling author Tess Gerritsen delivers a thoroughly menacing new thriller. A brilliantly compulsive page-turner from the author of The Surgeon. Dr Emma Watson, a brilliant research physician, has been training for the mission of a lifetime: to study living organisms in space. Jack McCallum, Emma’s estranged husband, has shared her dream of space travel, but a medical condition has grounded him. Now he must watch from the sidelines! The mission aboard the space station turns into a nightmare when a culture of single-celled organisms begins to regenerate out of control — and infects the crew with agonising and deadly results. Emma struggles to contain the deadly virus, while back home Jack and NASA work against the clock to bring her home. But there will be no rescue, as the astronauts are left stranded in orbit where they are dying one by one!

Released 5 Jan

POTJIE POTS BACK IN STOCK. NO 3. FEEDS 4 - 6 PEOPLE. 90€

Once again a box full of kiddies clothes and teddy bears has arrived safely, My contact in Cape Town will deliver them to the most needy Thanks everybody and heres a word from Jo

HI Nicky,

Thanks once again to all your friends in Mallorca – the parcel arrived on Monday.  Sorry it has taken me a while to confirm its arrival, but Mandela’s 67 minutes got in the way.  Many groups spent their time making sleeping bags for the homeless which meant I was on duty to demonstrate.  UCT have taken on this project in a big way – not the students yet, but the staff of various faculties.

I hope you won’t mind but I am giving the latest parcel to Dr. Paul Roux who is taking a whole heap of stuff up to Peddie on Friday.  I think I might have mentioned that he has started a clinic in the rural area and the people there are unbelievably poor.  Paul and Debbie (both members and ex Presidents of my Rotary Club) cycled 1000 kms from Peddie to Cape Town to raise enough money to purchase a vehicle to transport the ill and elderly patients from surrounding areas to the clinic. This they did while I was away.  They raised enough and Rotary then paid in the difference for the required vehicle.

Paul has come and gone with his 4 x 5 fully laden with kids clothing, adult clothing, toys, two bags of shoes and about 40 kgs of health bar off cuts I collected from Michaels & Michaels this morning.

I am trying to sort out my garage and to distribute anything I no longer will need in Shady Pines. I thought I had got rid of everything when I moved, but found two huge containers of photographs going back about 60 years.  I doubt my daughter will be interested once I am gone, so albums (minus a few photographs of friends) are all going into the garbage bin.  All the toys I bought for the grandchildren have gone with Paul as my spoilt grandchildren have enough of everything.  Books and puzzles will go to the paediatric ward at Groote Schuur.  See everything has a home somewhere.

Many many thanks Nicky – you know how much I and everyone appreciates the trouble you go to.

I will now have to make friends with the chaps at the Howard Centre Post Office in Pinelands.

Warmest regards and sincere good wishes to all,

Jo

Jo Maxwell

5 Pillans Court

Pillans Road

Rosebank

7700

Tel: 021 685-4517

We are International driving License agents, also known as IDL agents.

Your year long International Driving License has expired, you still abroad & need a new one. Maybe we can help you….. READ ON

GET A VALID INTERNATIONAL DRIVERS LICENSE…..

. If you obtain a valid international drivers license, you may rent a car and drive because most countries accept an international drivers license (IDL). An IDL translates your native driver’s license into 10 languages so you can show it to officials in foreign countries to help them interpret your driver’s license.

Also, an International drivers license (IDL) is proof that you hold a valid driver’s license in your own country. And it provides a translation into almost a dozen languages, mainly so that police and other authorities in other countries can read your license in their own language. It may not be absolutely necessary to have it, since many countries recognize each other’s licenses, but traveling with an International drivers license has many advantages. The permit is intended to overcome the difficulties drivers might have while traveling in other countries that may have widely varying licensing requirements. The IDP is a special license for tourists authorized by United Nations conventions on road safety in 1923, 1943, 1949, and 1968. Nearly 180 countries are signatories.

The International drivers license is printed in several languages-the five official UN languages (English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Chinese) plus German, Arabic, Italian, the Scandinavian languages, and Portuguese. It is valid in all the signatory countries. In addition, many other countries that did not sign the treaty recognize the permit and accept it in their territories. An International drivers license is easy to obtain, does not require a driving test, and is available for a small fee. It is, in fact, an official translation of your domestic driver’s license.

Requirements to obtain international drivers license or International Drivers Permit:

Applicants for an International drivers license must:

• be 18 or older;
• have a recognized driver’s license;
• submit passport-type photos, and copy of your signature;
• Fill out an application.

Prices

 International Driver’s License (Booklet & plastic card for 1 Year validity) - $35.00;

 International Driver’s License (Booklet & plastic card for 3 Years validity) - $50.00;

 International Driver’s License (Booklet & plastic card for 5 Years validity) - $65.00;

 International Driver’s License (Booklet & plastic card for 10 Years validity) - $85.00

Scrabble orriginal Board game

30€

The Trading Place now offers the DHL overland service your flexible partner for overland transport across Europe, parts of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), North Africa and the Middle East. We ensure reliable and efficient domestic and international transportation for customers of all sizes.

I have to admit I have been rather slack about updating the charity news on this website. Well we are still sending out parcels of kiddies clothes and heres an e-mail from Jo Maxwell in Cape Town letting us now how she plans to distribute the clothing.

3.70€

750ml

1.95€

2.75€ per bottle

Can also be bought chilled