The stress of everyday life can sometimes cause all kinds of aches and pains, none more so than when your body feels like a ton of bricks around Monday morning time.

Hot soothing baths are good, a run along the beach can do wonders but sometimes you just have to call in the help of a professional. The Spa Boutique, smack bang in the centre of Cape Town on New Church Street, is offering some crazy deals on massages and we think it’s time you did away with some of that stress.

R225 for a 60-Minute Aromatherapy Full Body Massage for One (R650 value)

R429 for a 60-Minute Aromatherapy Swedish Massage for Two (R1 300 value)

R448 for a 75-Minute Aromatherapy Swedish Massage for Two (R1 400 value)

R465 for a 90-Minute Aromatherapy Swedish Massage with Hot Stones for Two (R1 500 value)

During a full body massage highly-trained fingers diligently search out stresses, ousting tension and knots with soothing strokes. Making use of five styles of long, flowing strokes a Swedish massage is shown to be helpful in reducing pain and joint stiffness.

Treat yourself, a drop in stress levels will probably be a treat to those around you as well.

Then there’s one for the kiddies who watched the last Jurassic World, or perhaps you older folk who are hanging onto your youth. It’s called the Dinosaur Excavation Kit: Triceratops (R189, 37% off) and it’s inspiring tomorrow’s archaeologists.

Each Triceratops dinosaur is buried inside the included block of clay rock and kids must carefully excavate or “dig” the bones out with the tools provided. Kids can then assemble the skeleto and no glue required during assembly. The dinos are four to six inches and will look something like this:

I can’t promise that’s going to up your laaitie’s street cred but it sure looks like fun.