Thanks muchly Robby, for your support and awesome (your favourite word :-)) encouragement.
I quite like the analogy of 'when in Rome....' That can work for me....I think :-) I tend to say what's on my mind too readily, in all sorts of circumstances, not just AA, so I just need to keep my other recovery 'interests' to myself unless I have got to know another member sufficiently well that I know for sure, more or less, that they're a similarly eclectic type person.
I'll PM you about the sponsor issue so as to respect the boundaries of this thread.
Warm regards
Vic