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A lot of our information about being left-handed is included in fixed pages that you can see by using the menus on the left of the page or by using the search box to find relevant information.
This blog section is where we post all the latest information about left-handedness that we come across and ask for your comments and contributions. If a topic or story seems to be of particular interest, we will expand on it and produce a ...Read more
In a lot of places like post offices and banks you find pens chained to the desk or counter and of course they are chained to the right hand side and usually on a chain so short that they cannot be used by lefthanders! We have complained about this before but have been reminded about it by Left Handers Club member David D who sent us this email:
Hello Keith and Lauren,
I’ll just mention an argument I got into last week ...Read more
Our backwards watches are made in China but come with a 24 month guarantee from the UK importer. If you have any problems with your watch that are covered by the guarantee please contact Chateau Watches direct at:
CWL, Customer Services Dept, PO Box 187, Leeds, LS7, 1EF, United Kingdom. Your invoice from Anything Left Handed that we include with your watch when ...Read more
Just another reminder that any orders for left handed products for pre-Christmas delivery within Europe need to be placed by 07:00 UK time on 9 December 2011.
Last order date for UK delivery is: 07.00 UK time on Monday 19th December 2011
We will keep despatching orders right up to Friday 23 December and some orders placed soon after the official last dates may still reach you in time but we cannot be sure.
Don’t forget to get your lefthanders diary for 2012: (full details, pictures and ...Read more
Lefthanders can have problems with smudging their writing because their left hand is pushing the pen across the page and can rub over what has just been written. This can be avoided with the correct writing style and pen grip – ideally the hand should be held below the writing line. However, a lot of lefthanders have adopted styles where theit hand does go straight over their work and in those cases a fast-drying, non-smudge ink is a great help.
Cartridge ...Read more
We get loads of request for a left handed camera, with the shutter button on the left side so it can be pressed with the left index finger.
The Yashica Samurai film camera of the late 1980s is one of the only ones to have been in regular production but it was very expensive for what it was and was not a success.
We did at one time stock a left-handed 35mm film camera that had been made very cheaply and was ...Read more
Request from Matt:
“Hi, I hope you can help me. I’m trying to find a left handed pint glass for my father. He claims to have had one years ago (I believe it was obtained when he visited the Norfolk Broads) but I am having trouble finding any. He says it looked like a normal handled pint glass except it had a lip on one side for drinking from.”
If anyone know of such a thing please tell us more!
“Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people” – According to a lot of websites (copy it into Google to see them all).
This is a little snippet that has done the rounds on lots of “useless facts” type websites and has recently been appearing in some “forward me” emails. We have never seen a proper source for this “fact” so if anyone knows one please add it as a comment below. ...Read more
We had a comment from Rob today that made us think about this again…
“I was interested to read about how most left handers hold their knives and forks like a right hander would. I reckon that this possibly stems from how the table was laid out for us when we were children by our parents i.e. with the knife on the right and the fork on the left. I started off like this however I changed over around 25 years ...Read more
We deliver our orders using the First Class Royal Mail within the UK and Air Mail overseas and we process and despatch orders on the working day after they are placed on our web site. Based on the last posting dates advised by the carriers, these are the last order dates for various areas:
PLEASE NOTE: Because Christmas Day is a Sunday this year these dates are earlier than normal
Please order as early as possible to ensure you ...Read more
This is one of those phrases where “left-handed” is used in a negative or abusive way without any real reason. This expression uses left-handed in the sense of “questionable or doubtful,” a usage dating from about 1600 according to dictionary.com. Another explanation is that a left-handed compliment is an insult concealed in an apparent compliment and thus is the reverse of a real compliment, as left is the reverse of right. The left side has long been associated with wrongness ...Read more
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