Grandma's Hand

Why don't people write like this anymore? With ink pens? I have always been jealous of people who have beautiful handwriting. Maybe it's the biro's fault.
I found this in an old book that used to be my Grandma's and it just occurred to me how pretty it was. My handwriting seems to change everyday, is half joined up and half not, and tends to alternate between lowercase and uppercase within words, generally making me look like a 14 year-old on paper.