University arrived and with it the computer and keyboard – salvation at last! Or so I thought. Yes, essays could be typed up (incidentally ‘The Father of the typewriter’ Christopher Latham Sholes was a leftie) without wrist damage, but in seminars we had to write while sitting in those ridiculous desk/chair hybrids, designed for right-handed use. In my group, there were none for us clumsy-fisted, just the ruling right-handed elite. This meant that not only was my wrist at right-angles (the only ‘right’ thing my wrist can do), but my whole back had to be contorted to get the pen to reach the paper.