Getting your left-handed pen started

We sometimes get enquiries from people who are having trouble getting the ink flow in their new cartridge pen going. This is a typical one from Liz M…

Hi my recent order has just been received. I can’t get the Pelikano Junior cartridge pen to work. The ink is going down to the black part of the nib but doesn’t flow down to the tip of the nib. I have changed cartridge but its still not working. Please can you ...Read more

Follow LeftHandersClub on Twitter

Twitter now has over 175 Million subscribers and receives over 100 Million Tweets per day and it has become an great way to keep up with what is going on with other people and organisations you are interested in. Basically, you can make “mini-posts” of up to 140 characters called Tweets to update the world on what you are up to and anything important that has happened – in the case of LeftHandersClub we use it to announce any new ...Read more

Left handed pencils

Some years ago we got fed up with the fact that all pencils are printed for right-handers and if you hold them in your left hand the slogan or other printing is upside down. We have found a manufacturer who can produce left handed pencils for us with our own custom print, and printed the correct way round for left-handers. The slogan on our left handed pencil reads:

It’s a left-handed thing… You wouldn’t understand!

This is aimed at the right-handers who ...Read more

Left handed meat mincer?

Request from Marilyn:

I was very disappointed to find that you do not sell a meat mincer for us lefties. I can only assume that such a product does not exist as I have looked on many websites but they are all made for righties as the handle always turns clockwise instead of the way that is more comfortable for us anti-clockwise.

I hope that you are able to find one as I don’t like shop-bought mince.

We have never come across ...Read more

Infants & Left-handedness

Question from  Left Handers Club member Celina:

First I want to start by saying thank-you for this newsletter dedicated to our unique attribute of left-handedness. I find it very informative and enjoyable.

I was wondering if you have any information and/or research on infants and hand preference. How early can hand preference be determined? Additionally, what do you know about genetics influencing hand preference?  I have a 3 month old son who has recently starting sucking on his hands, but shows ...Read more

Update on changing left-handers to right

Left handed child writing left handedWow – this was a topic that generated a lot of interest. We have had over 150 comments left on the original article and more than 25,000 words written by members about their experiences. Here are a few extracts to give you a good flavour of the typical feedback:

As a child I was forced to sit by myself when taking tests, because the teacher thought that I would ...Read more

Suggestions for newsletter content

lhc newslettersWe produced a short survey in our October 2010 newsletter asking members about their preferences for the newsletter format and frequency.  You can see the results of that and the comments we received here, but we also got some suggestions for future subjects to cover.  We will be working our way through them and if you offered to help we ...Read more

Comments on Left Handers Club newsletter format

lhc newslettersWe produced a short survey in our October 2010 newsletter asking members about their preferences for the newsletter format and frequency.

83% thought that the current frequency of one newsletter per month was best

87% thought that the current content of 6 to 8 articles was right

60% thought that we should continue to show the full articles in the email body, while 39% thought we should have ...Read more

Left handed child download guides problems

We have 3 guides available – on scissors and cutting, letter formation and pre-school children.  You can see them here:

http://www.anythinglefthanded.co.uk/acatalog/childrens_books.html

If you order on www.lefthandedchildren.org you should be returned to the download page after you make the Paypal payment and then click the “Return to merchant” button.

If you ordered on www.anythinglefthanded.co.uk you should receive an order confirmation email with the download links to the guides you ordered as soon as the payment is completed and you click the “Return to merchant” ...Read more