Handwriting

Bluebell woods

How is your handwriting these days?

I used to get awards for mine…ho hum😔☺️

still get admired ( my script) that is …

Jim_Hodge

Mine has become absolutely dreadful and it was once excellent. It's down to lack of use. Everything is typed, crosswords are completed with block capitals and we hardly have a need to write anymore. Now I can struggle read a note I might right for myself, and Christmas or Birthday cards look awful if I write them. My wife still has good handwriting but she wasn't in a job where it was all keyboards for the past 30+ years.

looksee

My handwriting was never amazing, but tidy enough and legible. Learning shorthand in my teens destroyed it and like Jim, a lifetime of keyboards - typewriter then computer - finished it off.

Jellybaby_1

Interesting that this subject has popped up just now. Himself and myself were chatting yesterday, he had to 'write' a letter and naturally these days sat down at the computer. First thing he said was 'where does the date go?'. I said, 'where it usually goes', and he said he didn't know. So the conversation continued back and forth until eventually in frustration I said 'but surely you've written letters before?' and then he confessed he'd never written a letter in his life!!!!! I was gobsmacked. Is he the only person to live with this awful secret? How did I marry and live with a man well into our 70's and not know this?