Some difference, not a dramatic one. I am keeping at it because the difference is in the right direction.
Margaret S. 67 · Carlisle
HALVEN EMS Bunion Corrector
Right foot
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£44.99
Regular price £59.99
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Halven EMS Bunion Corrector · Fifteen minutes an evening · Ten modes
★★★★★
Rated 4.7 by 10,000+ customers
It holds your toe. And it works the muscle that is meant to hold it.
Spacers push on the bone. Insoles support the foot. Nothing in that drawer works the muscle that pulls on your toe. The EMS unit does. Fifteen minutes an evening, sitting down.
- The EMS unit works the muscle that pulls on the toe, not just the joint it sits on
- A rigid bar holds the angle, first minute to last. Not gel, not foam
- Fifteen minutes an evening, sitting down. About the length of the news
Free UK delivery 60 day guarantee Royal Mail Tracked, with a tracking number
Ten seconds, before you choose
Take your shoe off. Put your thumb against the side of your big toe and push it gently towards the others.
If it moves, and the ache is worse in the evening than it is at breakfast, this is the foot this device was built for.
If your toe is locked and sits over the one next to it, no strap worn on the outside reaches a joint that has set. Better to know that here than in three weeks.
Last units of this batch at this price
One foot, or both?
Do the thumb test on the other foot now. Most people only deal with the foot that hurts, and the other one is usually already leaning. It is not a healthy foot next to a sore one. It is the same foot at an earlier stage. That is why we built an offer around both feet, so the question stops coming back.
Halven in the UK
- A support team that answers you, a real person, usually within one working day
- Sixty days to change your mind. You send it back, we refund you, and you do not have to argue your case
- The evening guide, in your inbox as soon as you order
- Free tracked delivery by Royal Mail Tracked, with a tracking number the moment the parcel leaves
The evening you stopped having
You know the one. Where you stay standing and talking without scanning the room for a chair. Where you keep your shoes on until the end, because you have not spent the afternoon counting the hours until you can finally take them off.
Where you say yes when somebody suggests a walk after dinner, without working out the distance back to the car first.
That evening is what is actually on the table here. Not another device in the drawer. Fifteen minutes sitting down, sixty evenings, to find out whether it comes back to you.
Why this price
A spacer is moulded plastic, and it costs what moulded plastic costs. This is a rechargeable electrical device: an EMS unit with a battery, a screen, electrodes and ten programmes, plus a rigid bar on the same strap.
You are paying for the electrical half. That half is what works the muscle nothing else in your drawer touches. Across the sixty days of the guarantee, that comes to less than a pound an evening to find out.
And the price on the button is the price you pay. Delivery is free, and nothing else is added at checkout.
Why the pair is not simply two units
Two separate units come to £89.98, and that number stops people. So we did not price the pair that way.
At £69.99, the second foot costs £25.00. Not because it is worth less. Because one settled foot next to one that still pulls is not the result we are aiming at. We would rather you did both than picked one and wondered about the other.
Everything in your drawer acts on the bone. Nothing has worked the muscle.
Spacers push on the bone. Insoles support the foot. Nothing works the muscle that pulls on your toe.
A muscle runs along the inside of your foot and pulls on the big toe. Everything you have already bought leaves it exactly as it was.
A spacer pushes while it is on your foot. A night splint holds while you sleep. A wide shoe takes the pressure off the outside. They all act on the bone, and none of them touch the muscle.
What they do
Push, hold, cushion. On the bone, while worn.
What this one does
It holds the angle and runs the EMS unit on the muscle. Same strap, same session.
Halven carries two parts on a single strap. The rigid bar holds the toe at a fixed angle for the full fifteen minutes. The EMS unit, electrical muscle stimulation, ten adjustable modes, works the muscle around the joint over that same time.
So your drawer is not a list of bad decisions. It is the same layer bought four times over. You were not wrong to keep looking.
The bar on the bone. The EMS on the muscle. One strap.
A rigid bar where the others put gel
Run your thumb along the inside of the strap and you will feel it. A moulded bar in translucent plastic, seated in a sleeve that runs the whole length of the toe.
It holds the angle from the first minute to the fifteenth, because a rigid moulded bar does not give under the load of a toe. Gel does. Soft silicone does. Press each of the two and you feel the difference in a second.
Nothing forces. Nothing pinches. The strap is the soft part and it adjusts to the width of your foot, so the pressure is even rather than sharp. Firm, not tight.
Strap it on, sit down, let the bar do the work. There is nothing to hold in place with your hand.
The same angle at the fifteenth minute as at the first.
The EMS unit is the half a spacer does not have.
Turn the strap over and you find the reason this is not a twenty pound product. A rechargeable EMS unit, seated on the outside of the strap, with a screen and three buttons. A battery, electrodes, ten programmes. The electrical part of a real device, not an accessory.
EMS stands for electrical muscle stimulation. It is the electrical half of the device, and it is the half a gel spacer, a night splint and a wide shoe do not have.
The whole price gap sits in that one component. A spacer is moulded plastic and nothing else. This one carries a bar that holds the angle and an EMS unit that works the muscle around the joint, on the same strap, in the same fifteen minutes. That half is what you are paying for, and it is the half aimed at your end of day.
- EMS unit
- Ten modes
- Adjustable intensity
- Rechargeable
One button cycles through the ten modes. Two take the intensity up or down. It charges by cable and warns you before the battery runs flat. If the electrodes lose contact with your skin for around a minute, the unit switches itself off.
And the question everybody asks about EMS.
It feels like a light tapping under the skin. Some people describe it as a fizzing, or pins and needles. It does not hurt, it does not build, and there is no heat and no jolt. Nothing that makes you flinch or pull your foot away.
Start at the lowest setting on the first evening. Not as a precaution, but because the first two or three sessions feel strange to almost everybody, and almost everybody stops noticing before the end of the first week.
Go up a level only when you no longer feel the one you are on.
The EMS on the muscle. The lowest setting first.
Push surgery further down the road
Bunion surgery exists, and sometimes it is the right call. But it is paid for mostly in time, and the bill is the smallest part of what it costs.
- Weeks in a walking boot
- No driving
- Somebody else doing the shopping
- A foot you cannot put your weight on while everything else carries on without you
Ask a surgeon whether it can come back, and the honest answer is that sometimes it does.
That is why so many people look for something to do first.
Halven is what you do while you decide, or what you do because you are not ready to give up six weeks of your life. No scalpel. No boot. No time off. Fifteen minutes sitting down, then you stand up and walk on it.
Sixty days to send it back. Two full months, which is longer than most of this category gives you.
A decision you can put off, on your own terms.
Less ache. More evening.
Picture an ordinary Thursday.
- You walk the long way round the block, because the short way was never about distance.
- You stay on your feet through the whole of making dinner instead of looking for a reason to sit down.
- You say yes to Saturday without working out how far it is from the car park.
And the small thing that is not small at all.
You open the wardrobe and reach for the pair you actually like, not the pair that misses the joint.
None of that is a miracle and we are not going to sell it to you as one. It is what an evening looks like once your foot has stopped setting the plans.
Less ache. More evening. That is the whole point.
The foot you are not thinking about
You came here for one foot. The one that got you searching in the first place.
Bunions are usually a two foot story. They come from the shoes you have worn and from the way you walk, and both of those apply to both of your feet.
What differs is the stage. We all have a stronger side. You stand on it, you push off it, you load it more. So it gets there first.
The other foot is rarely untouched. It is usually the same foot, earlier.
If you did the thumb test at the top of this page, do it once more on the quiet foot.
If that toe leans the same way and still moves, you have your answer. Two feet, two stages, one routine.
And if it is straight and nothing moves, order the single unit. We would rather sell you one than watch you send two back.
Size. One size, adjustable. The strap tightens or loosens to the width of your foot, so most adult feet are covered without measuring anything. Wide feet, high insteps, feet that swell by the evening: there is room in both directions.
The toe and the front of the foot stay free. Nothing is compressed except the part being held.
Sides. One unit is made for one foot. Left and right are not interchangeable, so that is the one thing to check twice when you order.
Two feet, two stages, one routine.
Do not settle for the cheap one
Six things that matter. One of them is the muscle, and it is the only one that changes anything.
| What it does |  | Standard spacer |
|---|---|---|
| Holds the toe at a set angle | HALVEN✓ | Standard spacer✓ |
| Used sitting down at home | HALVEN✓ | Standard spacer✓ |
| Costs under £20 | HALVEN✗ | Standard spacer✓ |
| EMS works the muscle that pulls on the toe | HALVEN✓ | Standard spacer✗ |
| Rigid moulded bar, not soft gel | HALVEN✓ | Standard spacer✗ |
| Fifteen minute session, not all night | HALVEN✓ | Standard spacer✗ |
If a twenty pound spacer is doing enough for you, keep it. This is for the drawer that is already full of them, and for the one line above that none of them can tick. The whole price gap sits in that line.
Frequently asked questions
The real ones, with clear answers.
How long before I feel anything?
The first evening. The EMS tingle arrives in the first few seconds, and the bar holds the toe the moment the strap is closed. You feel the device working through the fifteen minutes.
What builds after that is the routine. Do the session in the evening, then notice how your foot feels at the end of the next day. That is where you will see the difference, on your own evenings.
Sixty evenings to set the habit, and sixty days of guarantee to do it without risk.Why has nothing else worked?
Because everything you have tried so far acts on the bone, and this one also works the muscle that pulls on the big toe.
A gel spacer pushes while it is on your foot. A night splint holds while you sleep. A wide shoe takes the pressure off the outside. None of them touch the muscle, so everything goes back to how it was the moment they come off.
Here, the bar holds the angle and the EMS unit works the muscle, on the same strap, in the same fifteen minutes.
Your drawer is not a list of bad decisions. You were looking for the half that was missing.How long does the effect last after a session?
Some people feel it for the rest of the evening, some until the next day. It depends on the foot and on the day it has had.
It is a routine, and that is exactly its strength. Fifteen minutes sitting down, every evening, the way you would stretch a stiff shoulder. What counts is not one session on its own, it is the run they make together.
The free guide shows you how to keep it going past the third week.Is it made for my foot?
You have the answer in ten seconds. Push your big toe gently towards the others with your thumb.
If it still moves, and the ache is worse in the evening than it is at breakfast, that is exactly the foot this device was built around. That is the most common case by a long way.
If the toe is completely locked and sits over the one next to it, the joint no longer answers to a strap worn on the outside. Better to know now.
How long do I use it for each day?
Fifteen minutes, once a day. That is all, and it is deliberate: a short routine is a routine you keep.
In the evening, sitting down, while the telly is on. There is nothing to hold with your hand, the bar does the work for you.
Is the strap adjustable?
Yes, and by a long way. The strap tightens or loosens to the width of your foot and to how comfortable you feel that day.
One size, and most adult feet are covered without measuring anything. Wide feet, high insteps, feet that swell by the evening: there is room in both directions. The toe and the front of the foot stay free.
What do the numbers on the screen mean?
The mode you are on, M1 to M10, and the intensity level. Ten programmes, and you are the one choosing.
The M button cycles the modes, plus and minus adjust the intensity. Once you have found your setting you leave it alone.
How do I know if it is charging or charged?
A red light stays on while it charges and goes out when the battery is full. Readable at a glance.
It warns you before it runs flat, so it does not quit on you halfway through a session. One charge by cable and you are set for several evenings.
Why did it switch itself off?
That is the automatic shut off, and it is a safety feature. If the electrodes lose contact with your skin for around a minute, the unit cuts out to save the battery.
Put the strap back in place, switch it on, the session carries on. The device is doing exactly what it should.
How long is a session?
About fifteen minutes, and you keep control of the mode and the intensity the whole way through.
Fifteen minutes sitting down, and that is it for the day. No whole night wearing a splint, no shoes to change, no app to open.
Can I use it on both feet?
Yes, and it is what most customers choose. Bunions are usually a two foot story, because they come from the shoes you have worn and from the way you walk, and both of those apply to both of your feet. What differs is the stage: you load your strong side more, so it gets there first.
Push the big toe on the foot you were not thinking about. If it leans the same way and still moves, that side is the same foot, earlier.
One unit per foot, one after the other in the same evening. Left and right units are different, and that is the one thing to check when you order.
That is why the Duo exists, and why the second foot works out at £25.00 on it.Does the EMS sensation hurt?
No. It is a light tingle, like a tapping under the skin. No heat, no jolt, nothing that makes you pull your foot away.
And you are the one setting the intensity, from the gentlest level to the strongest. Start at the lowest for the first few evenings: the first two or three sessions surprise almost everybody, and almost everybody stops noticing after that.
Can I wear it in front of the television?
Yes, that is exactly what it was designed for. Sitting down, foot free, telly on.
The session slots into an evening you were going to spend sitting down anyway. You move nothing else in your day.
How long does delivery take?
Your guide arrives immediately, in your inbox as soon as you order. You read the first chapter while the parcel is on its way, and you know exactly what to do on the first evening.
Delivery is free and tracked by Royal Mail, anywhere in the UK. You get a tracking number the moment the parcel leaves and you follow it the whole way.
The device ships directly from the factory that makes it, which saves you paying the mark up of a middle warehouse.
Is there a money back guarantee?
Yes. Sixty days from delivery, two full months, longer than most of this category.
You use it every evening, you judge it on your own evenings, and you decide. One email is enough, you send the device back, we refund you. You do not have to argue your case.
The risk sits with us, not with you.Should I try Halven before considering surgery?
A lot of women would rather try the non invasive route first, and that is a reasonable call: fifteen minutes sitting down in the evening, against weeks in a walking boot.
Sixty days is plenty to find out what it does for you, and while that runs the surgery question can wait.
For some people surgery does end up being the right choice, and that conversation belongs with your GP or podiatrist.
Ordering, waiting, and changing your mind
The four things worth knowing before you decide.
Free tracked delivery anywhere in the UK
Orders leave within one working day, and you get a tracking number the moment it ships. You can follow the parcel the whole way.
Free on every order, whatever you buy. There is nothing to choose and nothing to add at checkout.
Your guide arrives firstvalued at £19.95
The Fifteen Minute Evening Routine lands in your inbox the moment you order, well before the parcel does. Read chapter one while you wait and you will know exactly what to do on night one.
What to do in the fifteen minutes, how to build the habit so it survives the third week, what to do on the days you skip, and how to judge whether it is working without measuring anything.
Sixty day guarantee
If for any reason you are not happy with your order, we will do everything we can to make it right. Sixty days from delivery, completely risk free.
Expert customer support
Real replies from a small team, usually within one working day. If anything arrives damaged or stops charging, tell us and we sort it.
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What people say once it arrives
Including the ones who were not impressed.
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I am not an easy sell on this stuff. I have a drawer of things that did nothing. This is the first one where I noticed a difference in how my foot felt at the end of a long day, and I noticed it without looking for it. That is the part that got me.
Denise M. 58 · Doncaster
Im on the tills, long shifts, on my feet the whole time. By the end of one my big toe joint used to throb so hard I couldnt think. I do this sitting on the sofa when I get home. Its become the thing I do before dinner.
Karen W. 61 · Swansea
I have wide feet and a high instep and I was fully expecting to be sending this back. It fits. The strap has a lot more give in it than it looks like in the photos.
Sharon B. 54 · Leicester
The ache in the evening is not running my night anymore. I still know the joint is there, its not magic, but it is not the loudest thing in the room by nine oclock.
Jenny L. 63 · Dundee
Ordered it, forgot about it, it turned up. Tracking worked the whole way. I had read a lot of horror stories about ordering from overseas so I was bracing myself.
Fiona R. 44 · Aberdeen
Im seventy and I still walk every morning. The last couple of years that walk was getting shorter and it wasnt my knees. Doing this in the afternoon has kept the walk about the same length it always was.
Beverley S. 70 · Shrewsbury
Started with the right one because that foot was worse. Ordered the left one about a month later. Should have just got the pair to begin with, it works out cheaper.
Concetta V. 57 · Manchester
I assumed the screen was there to make it look expensive. Its actually just the mode and the intensity, and you do use both. Once you find the setting that suits you, you leave it.
Kathy O. 49 · Plymouth
Easy to keep up because it doesnt ask for anything. Sit down, strap on, fifteen minutes. Ive missed the odd night and nothing terrible happened.
Julie A. 55 · Norwich
Honestly did not think a strap and a bit of buzzing would do anything. The end of the day is different now. I am not sure how else to say it.
Lorraine B. 64 · Glasgow
Started on one, worked up to about four over a few weeks. The first session felt like ants. Now it just feels like a pulse and its almost relaxing.
Amanda T. 46 · Hull
Hairdresser, thirty odd years on a concrete floor. My feet are what they are. This has taken the edge off the evenings and thats all I asked of it.
Antonella R. 53 · Bedford
Grandkids asked why I stopped complaining about my foot. Hadnt even noticed I had.
Marg H. 65 · Wakefield
Teacher. On my feet all day, hard floors, no chance to sit. The evenings used to be a write off.
Roz T. 56 · Chesterfield
Fifteen minutes is nothing. I lose more than that scrolling. Thats why I still do it.
Robin M. 59 · Kendal
My feet swell up in the summer and it still fits on the bad days. Just loosen it off a bit.
Dianne K. 62 · Peterborough
Ive had this joint since my forties and I had made peace with it. Turns out I didnt have to quite as much as I thought.
Voula R. 68 · Enfield
I can stand through cooking dinner again. Small thing. Was not small to me.
Sarah-Jane B. 51 · Southport
The tingle is weird for the first few sessions and then your brain stops noticing. Its not painful, just unfamiliar.
Georgia N. 36 · Bristol
Fits but its snug on my foot. If you are wider than average check the fit note on the page before you order.
Trudy W. 41 · Wigan
Nearly returned it in the first week because I felt nothing. Kept going on their advice. Glad I did.
Jill T. 60 · Inverness
My feet changed after menopause and nobody warns you about that. Everything got wider and more sensitive. This is the first thing I have bought for my feet in years that was actually made for a foot like mine now.
Kalliopi S. 66 · Croydon
the fifteen minutes is what makes it stick honestly. i have tried night splints and i never lasted a week. this one i just do while the news is on and its done before i even think about stopping
Michelle P. 47 · Newcastle upon Tyne
The tingling was strange the first two nights. I nearly gave up on it. Stuck with it on the lowest setting and now I barely register it. Wish someone had told me that upfront, so I am telling you.
Anne-Marie K. 59 · Stirling
I have spent more than this on gel spacers over the years, in dribs and drabs, and I have nothing to show for it. At least this one does something the others didnt.
Rosa D. 51 · Luton
Comfortable enough that I forget its on until the unit turns off. I expected something that pinched. It doesnt.
Nicole H. 39 · Reading
Something has definitely shifted for me. Not going to overstate it. The shoes I gave up on are back in rotation and that is more than I expected when I ordered.
Lyn C. 62 · Ayr
I do the school kitchen three days a week which is a lot more standing than people think. The evenings after those days were the worst. Not so much now.
Wendy F. 68 · Taunton
Size 7, quite a broad foot, no issues at all. The toe part was the bit I was worried about and it was fine.
Melanie G. 43 · Swindon
My mother had the same feet and had the surgery in her sixties. I am not ready for that conversation yet and this is buying me time.
Maureen J. 72 · Bournemouth
it doesnt dig in anywhere which was my main worry. i can adjust it tighter or looser depending on how puffy my feet are that day
Danielle W. 41 · Stoke-on-Trent
The twenty pound ones I bought before did exactly what they said, which was nothing much once they were off. This costs more and I use it more.
Thuy N. 52 · Milton Keynes
My toe still moves when I push it, which is the test on their page, and that turned out to be the right question to ask. My sister's is completely rigid and I told her not to bother.
Helen K. 60 · York
Took a while to get here but it was tracked the whole time and the email told me exactly where it was. No complaints.
Gail N. 67 · Dumfries
I put it next to the sofa so I see it every night. Thats the whole trick really. Out of sight and I would have stopped by now.
Christine P. 58 · Wrexham
Charges off a cable, tells you when its low, turns itself off if it comes loose. Its a proper little device, not a toy with a light on it.
Debbie L. 50 · Blackpool
Sat through the whole thing reading my phone and forgot about it. Thats the review.
Kylie D. 38 · Basildon
At my age you stop expecting things to help and start expecting things to be a hassle. This was neither.
Nora W. 69 · Ipswich
ordered the pair straight up because both my feet are bad. glad i did, doing one and then the other on the same night is easy enough
Renee S. 42 · Rotherham
I costed it out against what the specialist quoted me and it was not a close call. This was worth trying first.
Judith E. 61 · Harrogate
I have a narrow foot and I thought it would be loose. There is plenty of adjustment the other way too.
Mai L. 48 · Slough
Less throbbing at night. Thats the honest summary. I am sleeping through instead of shifting my foot around.
Colleen B. 63 · Barnsley
I emailed about a charging question and got a person, not a robot, the next morning. That told me more than the website did.
Yvonne C. 71 · Llandudno
The buzzing takes some getting used to. Do not start high, thats my advice. Once you are used to it you can turn it up.
Simone A. 45 · Colchester
My joint is sore but it still moves, which apparently is the thing that matters. Glad they said so before I bought instead of after.
Cheryl J. 66 · Falkirk
comfy. thats it. i was expecting to have to grit my teeth
Louise P. 40 · Crawley
It looks a bit gadgety but the bit that does the work is the hard plastic bar, and you can feel that doing its job the second its on.
Tracy H. 54 · Warrington
Arrived in the window they said. Well packed. No customs nonsense.
Tracey G. 47 · Exeter
Not cheap. Also not four thousand pounds and six weeks off work. Thats the maths I did.
Natalie W. 44 · Cheltenham
Doing it while I watch my programme. Its part of the evening now and I dont think about it.
Elaine S. 70 · Scarborough
Bought a right, needed a left, ordered it. Just get both if you know you need both.
Amal F. 60 · Walsall
The strap is soft. Its the bar inside that is firm. You feel the difference between those two things straight away.
Meredith L. 57 · Bangor
Volunteer at the charity shop, standing all day sorting. The ache used to arrive around three. Its not what it was.
Bev A. 64 · Worthing
Didnt need the guarantee but I read it before I bought and it was written like a human. That mattered.
Pam D. 66 · Carmarthen
fits fine and im a size 8. was genuinely expecting not to
Justine M. 43 · Mansfield
Everything about my feet is different to what it was at fifty. This was made for the feet I have now, not the ones I used to have.
Carol B. 69 · Chelmsford
Ten modes sounds like marketing but they do actually feel different. I use one of the slower ones.
Bethan T. 55 · Merthyr Tydfil
It has not changed the shape of my foot and I did not expect it to. It has changed how my foot feels by dinner time.
Alison H. 61 · Buxton
Works for me but I do have to make myself do it some nights. Not because its unpleasant, just because its one more thing.
Leanne P. 49 · Rochdale
Slightly fiddly to get the strap sitting right the first few times. Once you work out where it goes its fine.
Suzanne K. 52 · Truro
The sensation is not for everyone I dont think. My husband tried it and hated it. I got used to it in a few nights.
Deb M. 58 · Grimsby
Longer wait than I would like but they did say so upfront and the tracking was accurate the whole way.
Vanessa L. 45 · Northampton
Its a lot for a strap. Its not a lot for something that has actually helped. Both things are true.
Rose A. 63 · Stevenage
Retail, six days a week over Christmas. Helped, but a full day standing is still a full day standing.
Sian R. 56 · Newport
Mine still moves so I was in the right group. My left is stiffer and it does less on that side, which they did warn about.
Heather B. 65 · Kilmarnock
Ordering the correct foot was more confusing than it needed to be at checkout. Product itself is good.
Nadine C. 47 · Telford
Helps. Not a miracle worker on a foot as far gone as mine but it helps.
Marion F. 68 · Salisbury
the app free thing is a plus honestly. buttons on the unit and thats it.
Weiling C. 38 · Sutton
I do about four nights out of seven rather than every night. Still worth it.
Christina D. 54 · Preston
Its fine. Does what they say it does, no more and no less. I am not sure it is worth what I paid but I do not regret it either.
Patricia N. 62 · Bolton
The unit switches itself off if the strap moves and that happened a fair bit at the start. Less now that I know how to fit it. Bit annoying though.
Sonia M. 44 · Halifax
Comfortable and easy enough to use. I have not really noticed much myself but my daughter says I am not limping in the evenings so who knows.
Glenys W. 70 · Aberystwyth
Charging cable is short. Everything else is fine.
Kim R. 51 · Hastings
This is not a cure and it does not pretend to be one, which I respect. It is a routine that makes my evenings easier. Whether that is worth fifty pounds is a personal call.
Robyn B. 57 · Paisley