Crystal could only nod, the truth there in her own messy handwriting.

Messy handwriting, like slurred speech, suggests one too many drinks.

In the days of snail mail, of course, Santa had to worry about reading messy handwriting.

Why do doctors have such messy handwriting?

Now, said Keith Morgan, the general manager, there are no mistakes from messy handwriting or bad math.

He is a bright boy, but he has a problem with messy handwriting - at its best it is still barely legible.

The program can even take advantage of the power of the computer to touch up messy handwriting, making it more readable in subsequent viewings.

"Very messy handwriting."

We advise readers about UCAS, messy handwriting, and volunteering to teach.

To the Editor: Deborah Solomon's review of Frida Kahlo's diary reveals her inexperience with diaries in general (full of "messy handwriting"), Mexican politics, Spanish poetry and passionate art.

Surely no book can compete - at least in terms of messy handwriting - with "The Diary of Frida Kahlo," a facsimile of a journal she wrote in longhand in the last decade of her life.