Heston Blumenthal

I've been watching Heston Blumenthal's programmes on telly where he creates an unbelievable dinner for his celebrity guests.

And I mean unbelievable. Last night's was a Roman feast: pig's nipple scratchings followed by calf brain custard and 'Trojan' pig where Heston's white, grey and pink sausages fell out of a pig's guts so it looked like intestines were dropping out. Then, for pudding, it was a cake that spewed out bubbles.

For someone who creates such amazing dishes, it comes as no surprise to see that he is left handed.

A strange left-handed coincidence

Everyone's been talking for the past couple of months about how the US has had five left-handed presidents in the last seven. No, I don't think left handers are more siutable material to be in high office; it's just coincidence.

Take a look at this:

At school, five of us did Latin A level and we had two Latin teachers. All seven of us were left handed.

My niece works in a team of seven and six of them are left handed. Admittedly, one or two are in creative roles, but the rest aren't.

When a friend was at law school, all eight of them in the constitutional law tutorial were left handed - and so were their tutors! Needless to say. the tutorial desks all had tables facing the wrong way...

Lawyers and Latin students are no more likely to be left handed than US presidents. Sometimes it just happens that way.

Left handed cartoons

Here's an amusing site I came across recently. It's right handed people drawing cartoons with their left hands... I'm not quite sure why you'd want to do that - maybe they secretly desire to be southpaws. Anyhow, it's called Lefthandedtoons and you can check it out here.