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.

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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

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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!

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“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

Filed under: Left handed life by Keith
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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

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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

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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

Filed under: November 2011 by Keith
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It is a long time since our last newsletter and we have been dealing with lots of problems to do with the warehousing, fulfillment and customer service arrangements for our left-handed products that have taken up all our time.

We have now reorganised this to bring all the services back in-house and directly under our control and we are sure it is going to work a lot better. What this has allowed us to do is bring a lot of products ...Read more

Filed under: November 2011 by Keith
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Lefthanders sometimes struggle with making knots that are designed for creating right-handed – anything from simple knots like a bow for tying shoes to more complex and specialist sailor’s knots.

We are gathering information on left-handed knot tying techniques and will add it to this post as we find more – if you know any good resources or can advise on any particular knots please add comments below.

Tying shoes left-handed ...Read more

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We are keen to develop a mobile App for the Left Handers Club and Anything Left Handed so we can let people access all our information and products using their mobile phones as well as on the web. It would include things like:

Information about us and being left-handed Left-handedness test (which hand do you use for various things and comparison with our survey results) Shop with all ...Read more

Filed under: May 2011 by Keith
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