Listening to a great podcast at the moment - in sections as to get a traight run at anything these days is proving more and more impossible - it's from In Our Time on Radio 4 with Melvyn Bragg and it's called Mathematics and Music.

He is chatting with 3 mathematicians who are all musicians as well, and that's the first things that wowed me, that most mathematicians are usually musicians as well. Makes sense once it's pointed out.

One of the talkers said that composers are nothing but 'pattern searches.'

I took 4 years of music at school and now wish I had taken more notice. I also took 4 years of needlework at school and it tool me 2 terms to make my Domestic Science apron!