All right, after this amazing catalogue of interests, I'll give you the rest of my list.

I have done crocheting (oddities like crocheted ice-cream cones, and especially wearable art), knitting, machine knitting (big pictures on jumpers etc), natural dyes for wool, papermaking, sculpture, drawing, painting, writing, tie-dyeing, funny birthday cakes (my two favourites were Big Bird, and a chicken, although the witches cauldron, and Stonehenge were fun, too).

Used to be pretty full-on for quite a while with computer graphics/art. I really get lost to the real world with that but my Amiga computer has been pushed to the background for a couple of years for storage reasons, but I'm about to break it out of its enforced isolation and do some more soon.

Musically I play Celtic harp, flute in a fairly average way, I've got a bodhran but haven't played it much, did a couple of weeks intensive African drumming - loved it, did some classes for dumbek (Egyptian drum).

I'm sure there is more to my list, but that's enough now.

As to right & left brain: my way of figuring that out is that right-brain tends to be visual/conceptual and left-brain tends to be analytical/verbal, i.e. using the right labels & terminology for things/concepts etc. I'm fairly balanced right/left, although I'm notoriously bad for using the wrong terminology, mainly because I like playing around with words and concepts and like coming up with other ways to express things.

I think you can be right brained and good with words in a conceptual way or left brained and good with words in a specific way. My theory.

Helen