My best friend at grammar school was a leftie and one of the few I've noticed who doesn't use the hook position. I've always assumed that it was the mandatory use of fountain pens that produced her non-smearing, non-hooked, rightie-matching style. I, a rightie, was always the one with ink-stained fingers, and an ink-stained school bag. Our desks were equipped with ink wells, but we never got to use them.

Don't people from every period of history think they've live through the fastest changing era, simply because that's the one they've lived through? Not that this thought stops me marvelling at the difference between the 1960s and the present. Some things I miss, some things I wish we could bring back, but boy am I glad I live in the future.