Does CBD Oil from Hemp Heroes In Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland Give You a Buzz or A Sleep Aid you can’t feel that works

Is taking CBD oil orally a substitute for smoking or vaping?

Mark Hutchinson

2025-10-22T08:11:00.0000000 2025-12-19T11:50:57.4230000

I must start by saying 24 months ago I gave up smoking completely. The weed, the cigarettes, the vape, cold turkey. My lovely wife, Suzy has been not moaning so much, but for years I've been aware she didn't appreciate my smoking habits and then something happened one day and I decided to have a go at going smoke free after 30 years.

I miss it for sure but I haven't gone back. To be honest the thing I miss the most is the pot. I didn't smoke a lot but I did have a couple of joints every day.

At the time a friend of mine gave me a bottle of Joes Essentials first batch of CBD oil to help me through the first few months but it tasted so terrible I literally couldn't get it down. So I swerved it completely. Then a few months ago I had an injury and was tempted to pick up my old habit. Instead I gave the Joes Essentials a go again. After a few weeks of nothing happening I did a bit of research and discovered all the medicinal properties the cannaboids or THC that were in the oil would have broken down and whilst it wouldn't do me any harm it wasn't going to offer any of the benefits either.

I started to do my research into an alternative, Joes Essentials didn't survive and discovered there are so many hemp oils, or CBD products to choose from it's completely overwhelming knowing what to pick as some aid anxiety and depression, some more physical ailments.

I settled on Hemp Heroes a mid priced CBD oil at £40 (some cost as much as £120) primarily because of the work and research they are doing with vets and using CBD to help animals. They are also a B corporation, a business model I like and seemed to have very good customer service and equally good product reviews.

I am not the oracle here by any means. I have been taking one drop of the oil, the amount prescribed for about 2 weeks daily. You pop it under your tongue for one minute and then swallow. The taste, not pleasant but doesn't make me gag like the previous oil purchased.

What is does, I don't know. Maybe I haven't been taking it for long enough, maybe I need more but I cannot notice any physical changes what so ever yet.

Is it a placebo? I don't know.

All I can tell you for anyone who has enjoyed smoking a joint in the past and is thinking about this as an alternative, even after 2 years abstinence, it is not for this purpose. There is no element of a high when taking this oil on a daily basis. It doesn't appear to relax me, it contains no pain relief. I cannot feel anything different after taking the recommended dose.

I have been nicotine and cannabis free for two years.  which may be still making me grumpy (according to Suzy) and what I can tell you when I finished taking it my sleep quality went down hill. So she’s insisted I need to be ordering again only this time 1000mg. I’ll keep you all posted. My wife is always right; usually. (With a smirk)

MERCEDES-BENZ S CLASS L AMG LINE take a test drive

For my girl the car shes been dreaming of

Mark Hutchinson

2025-05-22T09:52:00.0000000 2025-07-06T11:41:09.5930000

I’ve driven a Toyota pick up for a long time and every time we, Suzy and I go out anywhere fancy she complains she always has to drive because she hates going in the truck. It’s clean and tidy, she just doesn’t like it.

She’s had a big birthday and so I came up with her dream wheels and I drove her to pick it up pretending I was taking her to get her hair done, before we went out to celebrate.

She now has a few rules of her own regarding the aptly titled “Black Broomstick” the 1st being no smoking in the car, even with the window down.

The colour is obsidian black metallic 2.9L engine and it cost me just shy of twenty grand. The most expensive thing I have ever bought her.

And it’s 10 years old 2015 2.9L diesel engine S350d V6 AMG Line G-Tronic + Euro 6 (s/s) 4 door complete luxury and heavenly to drive after a 20 year old truck.

It’s got cruise control, air suspension, tronic gearbox the works. Leather interior, heated front and rear seats, tinted glass the works and if I’d bought it new it would have cost anywhere between 90 and 110 grand which honestly makes me shudder when I think about anyone spending that amount of money on a car.

It’s a dream to drive, you actually do feel like you are floating on air.

I’ve always fancied a BMW 6 series, very sporty but really looking forward to taking it over the France this summer to see my sister. Now we have the wheels we are taking a long road trip.

The great part for me about the new wheels is now I literally cannot get Suzy out of the driving seat, she loves to drive everywhere we go.

The best part about the whole thing was the look on her face. She couldn’t believe it. That I would do it. The first thing she said was “what have you done?” And she wasn’t talking about the car.

She won’t let me sit in the back though. Not yet anyway. With those heated seats makes me want to take a nap.

Mockingbird Raw Green Juice Smoothie

The original Virgin Smoothie

Mark Hutchinson

2025-03-28T13:16:00.0000000 2025-03-28T13:57:32.6030000

Suzy's got me on a health kick. She's badgering me about my smoking, I've had a cough for a week. Usually she'd be dosing me up with cough medicine and forcing Benylin Chesty cough non drowsy mixture down my throat that tastes absolutely disgusting and I don't think actually does anything.

She's decided to try food as an alternative to medicine. She's doing an experiment she tells me and I am the guinea pig. The Benylin medicine has been replaced by the Virgin smoothie, a concoction of raw greens, yep you heard me right, whisked up broccoli, kale and the like, sweetened with apple and kiwi. I know I hear you sounds disgusting. She administered it to me like she deals with the kids, forcefully and with no room for dissent.

I asked her how much it was when I saw 5 bottles of the stuff lined up and she told me we were drinking one a day for 5 days between us to see if overdosing on vitamins and easing off the fags would help her get some sleep. Her motive, to stop me keeping her awake at night.

I am on day three and it's honestly not that bad. The consistency is is just like a fruit smoothie so that's fine, not that thick and the taste whilst unusual is not repulsive. I am getting it down. The fruit helps. That's what you taste the most. It's not like drinking liquid broccoli.

They also contain spirulina which has additional health benefits I am told Spirulina contains protein, vitamins, and minerals along with being a powerful antioxidant. The antidote to free radicals. It's also maintained to help manage inflammation, blood sugar, cholesterol, and blood pressure.

An award winning juice of crisp leafy greens sweetened and balanced with pears and apples and you know what I am getting it down. It's not bad. And I don't know if it's cutting down the smoking or the juice, loaded with vitamin C or placebo, who knows but the cough is definitely better.

The cost of the virgin smoothie might be a turn off at £5 a go. Mockingbird make up for the high price tag with some other credentials I am reliably informed that may or may not float your boat. the bottle is made from 50% recycled materials, the juice is vegan, one of your five a day and the bottle is 100% recyclable.

The Raw press series includes 4 other options to try Raw defense, Raw Vitalise, Raw Boost and raw Glow. Raw Glow has pineapple and cucumber which sounds like a more appealing flavour combination for me once I've finished my first course of Raw Greens, alternative therapy.

Lloyds Bank Credit Card

It’s the 24:7 help bot

Mark Hutchinson

2025-02-19T07:34:00.0000000 2025-02-19T07:48:12.1930000

For about 10 days now I have been having a discussion with customer service at Lloyds bank via their bot what’s app sort of customer service “service” they call 24:7 help.

Except getting the help is not always as easy as say picking up the phone and talking to someone, getting the issue sorted and it not happening again.

I know Lloyds are not the only company to use this sort of communication which is cost effective for them and entirely frustrating to the customer.

I did a balance transfer onto a Lloyds Bank credit card for an attractive rate and have absolutely no complaints regarding that except, I’ve had a few issues, not my fault, where the internal system has bounced me back to a high interest rate automatically and I have fought to get the reduced interest rate, paid for at the outset, in my case about 300 quid reinstated.

The issue for the me, the only way I can speak to Lloyds is through the bot and today, in the middle of a conversation that has been ongoing for a few days now; (you say your bit and then have to wait for someone to respond, but you don’t know when they respond so you either have to keep logging in and checking to see or you just wait and have these long drawn out conversations with a load of different people,) the bloody bot won’t load at all.

“Server cannot connect to network, please retry”

Arghhhhhhh

Logan Paul

BBC 3 Documentary

Mark Hutchinson

2024-11-21T11:00:00.0000000 2024-11-21T13:54:14.0300000

I watched Logan Paul Bad Influence? Last night and thought I’d slip on here and give you all my take on this dude who has managed to amass millions and millions of super loyal fans over the last 10 or so years broadcasting on You Tube.

The program centred around his game Crypto Zoo, a multi level type marketing scheme except for, get this, families to enjoy together. It would make you laugh if it wasn’t so scary. So many ordinary people on camera talking about losing thousands of dollars, 40 thousand, 60 thousand.

They showed one guy who had played the game, had three eggs, he’d even hatched an egg, got a prize, the litten, a cross between a lion and a kitten. Was it generating a passive income like the Crypto Zoo game suggested, was it hell.

It’s unfathomable really that so many people are falling for the get quick rich scam. They called them push and dump schemes in the program, something you’d imagine the SEC would be watching closely. It seems bitcoins like Dink and Doink, the stupider the name the better, are being created, the gang buy in when the coins are issued and really cheap. Logan Paul then starts pushing the coin out to his followers. As the price starts to rise, the inside gang dump their coins, the price crashes and all of Logan’s followers lose their shirt, or pretty much.

I remember catching a penny stock wave in the 2000. I guess it’s not much different to all the insider trading happening on stock platforms like Ameritrade.

I haven’t got into gambling with Crypto myself, I do have an account. I only use it to buy other things from mainly the Netherlands.

To sum up, I think “the influencer” is dying. The concept of People, the public mindlessly following salesmen and women online, people with no other real life accomplishment and buying into them without any thought or actually checking of their credentials.

We all know what sales people will do to get the deal. It’s a very fine line between lying and marketing.

I think pitching Crypto Zoo as a family bonding experience would be a bit of a stretch for anyone.

It was a smashing watch. Definitely recommend it. Definitely a water cooler moment. It was shocking, worrying really how many people were saying even though Logan Paul had potentially done things wrong they still loved him and would continue to follow him.

Autoglass

Windscreen repair

Mark Hutchinson

2024-11-06T13:23:00.0000000 2024-11-06T13:38:03.9200000

My advice. Check your insurance policy and if a replacement windscreen coverage isn’t included add it to your policy immediately. I was completely shocked how much Autoglass quoted me for a new windscreen almost £1000.

Actually almost as much as my car is worth. It’s not uncommon for windscreens to crack in autumn I am now reliably informed, the change in temperature is a contributing factor.

Through my insurance company my replacement windscreen cost £115.

When I tried to think about who else might repair a windscreen quickly I couldn’t come up with a competitor.

Regarding the service, I had to wait a couple of days for an appointment which doesn’t sound that bad but in my case the car couldn’t be driven. And I did try to book online but the system wasn’t working so ended up having to call to make the appointment.

It was a 2 hour window and there was only one time choice available on that day.

I arrived on time and I was finished on time. It took about 21/2 hours in total, the amount of time quoted.

They did have a waiting room with free tea and coffee.

The getting booked in wasn’t easy, they were very busy, the service was as it said on the tin.

Laureus Sport For Good

Lots going on behind the scenes

Mark Hutchinson

2024-10-19T10:22:00.0000000 2024-10-19T11:48:20.9470000

I was lucky to work in Formula 1 for a time and Suzy is a big tennis groupie so by default I had a bit to do with Laureus.

Aside from being a massive charity who over 20 years have managed to develop Grant partnerships with the biggest names in sport to channel some of the wealth back into programs around the world with sport at the centre.

Each year the Laureus Sport calendar finishes with a glittering night, this year in Madrid where you can expect to see the glitterati of professional sport.

In 2024 in the swanky ceremony in the Spanish capital tennis player Novak Djokovic, wearing Brunello Cucinelli I am reliably informed, picked up his 5th sportsman of the year making him almost the most decorated sports man in the events 20 year history. Roger Federer has won 6 times.

The Laureus sportswoman of the year went to soccer player Aitana Bonimati.

It is the first time a footballer has been recognised. Since 2017 she has played more than 50 times for Spain, including featuring in Spain's World Cup squad in 2019 as well as 2023.

In 2023 Suzy’s man, I am not threatened much, Carlos Alvarez won best breakthrough and not surprisingly after the year he had winning Wimbledon and the French open Roland Garros but it was the UK’s Jude Bellingham, number 5 for Real Madrid # 10 for England and widely considered one of the best players in the world today took the award this year.

This event is perfect for couple, she gets the glamour of the academy awards and he gets sport on repeat.

And lots of money is raised for charity.

The first ceremony held 25 May 2000 in Monte Carlo, where at the time South African president Nelson Mandela gave the keynote speech. As of 2020, awards are made annually in eight categories, with a number of discretionary categories irregularly recognised. The recipient of each award is presented with a Laureus statuette, created by Cartier, at an annual ceremony held in various locations around the world. The ceremony has been held in 11 different cities around the world.

Over the last 20 years Laureus Sport has raised over €150 million.

Image credit, Carlos Alcaraz in Louis Vuitton

Weedmaps

Software app to connect cannabis suppliers with consumers

Mark Hutchinson

2024-09-29T11:21:00.0000000 2024-09-29T11:31:20.4900000

Fantastic article by Alex Halperin in The Guardian link below.

Weedmaps could make me move back to America.

Did you know there is an amazing app, dubbed “yelp for pot” by the Guardian.

Weedmaps has cleverly bypassed the illegality of selling medical grade marijuana across state lines by connecting growers, dispensaries and consumers on in one amazing app.

If you live in the UK you cannot even download the app let alone see how it works but I am pleased to see medical marijuana available on prescription in the United Kingdom from American companies Curaleaf Clinic formerly Sapphire and Alternaleaf.

I did go through the process with Alternaleaf of how I, someone extremely healthy might get a prescription. It appears you must have been offered two alternative pharmaceutical drugs before being a candidate/patient for medical marijuana prescription. The year is 2024

I want to take you back to 2000 on Venice Beach where the dispensaries are prolific and the doctors running them are super professional and very chilled out. They tell their “patients” about the dangers of long term alcohol use, so much worse for anyone than smoking marijuana or cannabis and the pot psychosis doctors in the UK seem preoccupied by doesn’t even get mentioned in the US.

I can see the change slowly happening behind the scenes, without aggravating the right wing back benchers who get rid of any progressive government advisor like Dr. David Nutt, sacked in 2009 for declaring, taken from the Guardian, “Nutt incurred the wrath of the government when he claimed in a paper that alcohol and tobacco were more harmful than many illegal drugs, including LSD, ecstasy and cannabis.”

I have to say I have gone as far as figuring out bitcoin and crypto currency to buy a decent strain from abroad but even though the quality was amazing it worked out way too expensive.

For me the illegal cannabis market is worth an estimated 2.5 billion according to IEA, institute or economic affairs and the pot smokers aren’t giving up anytime soon. The prisons are full of pot smokers and pot dealers, costing the tax payer millions.

With apps like Weedmaps revolutionising this marketplace in the US and allowing consumers the power to source and connect with the best growers and suppliers, this new industry is set to do some serious harm to big pharmaceutical companies and I for one cannot wait.

Well done Weedmaps. As soon as we can download in the UK I am there.

Creepy Ebay

Don’t worry about the seller they told me

Mark Hutchinson

2024-08-06T13:39:00.0000000 2024-08-07T07:34:14.0800000

As a long time seller on EBay, with not too many problems to be fair, just to top up, like many,

an ever dwindling income and no real reason to contact customer service I was absolutely horrified by the way the customer service person I spoke to handled my call just a few days ago.

So much so I cannot stop thinking about it,

In this instance I was unusually the buyer (not the seller) had bought a jacket from a charity in Ireland for my wife. It was a designer one and as we weren’t sure if it was the real thing I felt better the money going to charity, even if it was a fake.

The first strange thing that happened was when I offered 100 euros for the jacket, I was somehow charged 120 euros, something no one at EBay was able to explain and then because it was international VAT and shipping was added so I ended up paying way more than we had planned but she did really want the jacket.

The down side of EBay if the seller ignores you. There is absolutely nothing you can do except contact EBay customer service.

It did take me a while to find out how to speak to someone. You have to send a message to a chat box and then request someone call which they did very promptly. This was where the fun began.

The first part of the call was a fake thank you for being an amazing Ebayer for however long. Made me think what you after?

(Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.)

Fyodor Dostoevsky springs to mind.

I explained what had happened but instead of the representative accepting the fault lay with EBay (it looked like their technical glitch to me) she explained how I might ensure getting to keep the jacket and getting my money back as well.

When she said this so I as really shocked, I explained it was a charity and I didn’t want to keep the jacket and get all my money back, I wanted to find out how I could have offered one amount and been charged a different amount.

I could not believe how little regard she had for the EBay seller, a charity and it made me think about all the commissions I had paid over the years and made me question how EBay were speaking to and advising my customers.

I am sure just a customer would have been reassured whatever happened EBay were on their side and they will always side with the buyer regardless of the circumstances but it seems to me this way of doing things stops EBay having to take any responsibility for their platform when things go wrong.

The charity weren’t able to refund part of the transaction so they did suggest sending a prepaid envelope for me to send the item back to Ireland for a full refund but then Suzy didn’t get her jacket, the Charity lost the sale and it cost them money and EBay get off Scott Free.

I sucked it up, paid the extra, felt good the money had gone to charity and moved my side hustle to Vinted who I am sure don’t care about their sellers anymore than EBay but I’ve yet to find that out.

Mike N Cube

Google Ad Words Expert and Google Partner

Mark Hutchinson

2021-01-01T12:55:30.5270000 2021-01-01T13:02:57.0600000

I decided to wait a while and see what happened before posting this rant. Partly to ensure I could remain fair and objective. In business sometimes people need to be given time for reflection to make the right decision themselves before being punished with an honest online account remembering there are always two sides to every story.

I found Mike N Cube on Google, in about September last year, his website came up no. 1 when I searched for an Adwords expert, no mean feat for the highly competitive keywords. So I immediately assumed he must be doing something right.

When I spoke to him I got a great first impression he was straightforward, not pushy at all, relaxed which I liked, professional and told him all about my company, my needs, my budget and what I was hoping to achieve.

I told him my number one objective was traffic. I also explained the obstacles we’d encountered in the past having insufficient budget to compete bidding for expensive keyword placement. We agreed terms and I transferred £500 (50% of the agreed fee for a 2 month managed campaign) I was excited.

Mike spent a few days getting everything set up and during that time there were a few warning bells. He would ask me questions he already had the answer to and made mistakes with people’s names. I tried to contact him at the weekend and didn’t get a response then he started the campaign but nothing happened.

I’d had experience in the past running Google Ad campaigns myself, not easy to manage and track if you don’t fully understand the platform, (Google are looking to make money too) the reason I sort help from an “expert” in the first place.

After about a week, we’d only actually received 1 click, that’s right one. And it cost £4.

Obviously the campaign wasn’t working. Mike said we needed to run it for longer but I was nervous of blowing my budget and getting nowhere.

I asked we stop the campaign and have a rethink. I also asked for the balance of the deposit to manage the campaign be refunded.

The campaign was stopped but Mike decided to keep all the money.

Some may believe he was within his rights. We had a verbal agreement and I broke it.

But I still think if you’re really fantastic and the very best at your job that’s something you are extremely proud of, so when someone has an issue regarding over promising and underdelivering, you protect your reputation and sort it out, you don’t grab the money and leave things to fester.

Thoughts please.

Sport Of Seduction

Mark Hutchinson

2013-05-15T15:14:00.0000000 2016-07-10T15:16:10.5200000

STILL LAUGHING

My lovely girlfriend, Suzy, bought me a Kindle for Valentine's day, (impressive little bit of kit I'm now addicted to) and already loaded on there was this short little E-Book, no hints as to why she gave it to MOI. Like most men, if you ask their Mrs, she thinks there's room for improvement which is bollocks of course, the stud muffin that I am.

Anyway I dove in just to keep her quiet.

It's a manual, for want of a better description, on how to get laid from a woman's perpective. Tough love. Very funny. The sporting references are quick and the humour borderline crude and mucky, perfect for a simple, sport loving sex maniac. Seriously though we've had a right laugh reading it together and it did spice things up a bit so no complaints there.

Don't all rush out at once you lot.

Looking online it only costs £1.53 to download. Got to have the kindle though.

The Lincoln Lawyer

Mark Hutchinson

2012-12-18T16:27:00.0000000 2016-07-09T16:30:10.3900000

MCCONAUGHEY IS HOT AS HELL AND I'M NOT EVEN A WOMAN.

This unexpected totally inspired LA noir thriller based on a novel by Michael Connelly was a treat. I must be the last person to see this film. Surprisingly I'd never heard of it. The movie stars Matthew McConaughey, as Mick Haller, a silky smooth criminal lawyer ladies who has just regained his licence to practise law after some minor problem brushed over in the script. (Why his office is temporarily located in the back of his car, a Lincoln Continental.) Haller (McConaughey) gets lucky when he's retained by spoilt and super rich Louis Roulet, played by Ryan Phillippe, who's accused of a violent sexual assault. The script is brilliantly smart, savvy and very witty in places depicting the charmer Hallet knowing all the angles and how to work the system. It's a world of cynical lawyers cutting deals, bent cops and benter cons all battling over sinister secrets and all desperate to come out on top. Welcome to the USA. Great watch for guys and gals. Top notch performance from Matthew McConaughey.

The Hot Potato

Mark Hutchinson

2013-07-30T15:33:00.0000000 2016-07-09T15:37:17.6970000

This British film is a throwback to the crime caper films that were popular in the 1960s and pays homage to several of these, including The Italian Job.

One evening of 1969, a Ministry of Defence's facility in London is completely destroyed by a huge explosion. To their surprise, Danny (Jack Huston) and Kenny (Ray Winstone) come into possession of a strange object from the blast; a large lump of solid Uranium which looks remakably like a hot potato.

The pair quickly learn of their find's potentional worth as well as its radioactive dangers. With the aid of Danny's girlfriend, Carole (Lois Winstone) the three set off on an adventure, dodging police and other sinister criminals also on the hunt for this prized find.

WINSTONE RARELY DISAPPOINTS

I rented this one the old fashioned way, a DVD from Blockbuster on a Saturday night. The girl behind the counter says "Ray Winstone doesn't do a bad one" "So long as he keeps his clothes on"

The film didn't disappoint. It was fast paced and stylish, good tunes, and Winstone is devilish charm in 60's rogue. He plays this type so well even in a suede fronted cardigan, my Dad had one of them and a hot wife played by Louise Redknapp, she held her own opposite Winstone in some semi steamy scenes.

Suzy loved the film too and she doesn't usually do the gangster type film. This is classic British 60s caper set in East London, very funny as the unusual trio of Winstone, (Kenny) his friend Danny and Danny's girlfiend Carole who doubles up as Kenny's receptionist venture all over Europe trying to off load a lump of Uranium hence the name, Hot Potato.

Great light and funny film with sublty. It flew by for me. And I'd definitely watch again.

The Wedding Video

Mark Hutchinson

2013-09-10T10:13:00.0000000 2016-07-09T10:15:53.4600000

The Wedding Video is a 2012 comedy written by Tim Firth and directed by Nigel Cole. Presented in the "found footage" style, the film stars Rufus Hound, Lucy Punch and Robert Webb. It follows an engaged couple's best man as he creates a video documentary of their wedding.

WORTH WATCHING

Yeah I hear ya, sick of films about weddings. This one is not bad though, in fact it is a pretty funny film. Rufus Hound plays this guy, Raif who comes home after three years away to be his brother's (Robert Webb) best man, with the plan of making a film - a wedding video with a difference as his gift to the happy couple. Only when he discovers the gal he's marrying is Saskia Dutton, (Lucy Punch) Raif's high school obsession things start to get a little crazy.

It is shot in a home video style and the film takes the piss out of the wedding stereotype with characters like the over baring mother in law and bad tempered grand mother, played to perfection by Harriet Walter and Miriam Margoyles respectively in supporting roles.

This film is not going to break any box office records and the critics pretty much caned it but if you are looking for a fun romp of a film that will amuse young and old equally I think this is a good option. It is sort of the male equivalent to Bridesmaids.

Ingenious

Mark Hutchinson

2012-12-21T12:35:00.0000000 2016-06-13T12:36:27.0200000

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Alison Smith Squire

Mark Hutchinson

2013-04-10T08:44:00.0000000 2016-06-13T09:48:02.5370000

HELPFUL AND HONEST IN OUR EXPERIENCE

Alison is a good person to know if you have an interesting personal story to tell and would like to get it in the paper; for a price of course. Many people in the media are unethical, hello Levinson Enquiry, you’ll tell things your way and then, low and behold, the story will come out and you end up looking stupid or worse still like you’ve done something wrong. Journalists always are looking for an angle and are experts at spin. Someone like Alison makes sure she tells things from your side and protects you against this happening.

Suzy was one of the women with PIP implants and really wanted to share her story with other women without being exploited, being portrayed as a bimbo (her surgery was reconstructive) or the facts getting twisted.

We got in touch with Feature World because Alison Squire had helped someone else we know get a story in The Sun which then led to her getting an agent, something she desperately wanted and needed to take the next step with an acting career. She did a great job for us, kept us informed throughout the process, the story was printed and we got a very nice sum of money for our trouble.

All in all a good experience.