You can hear my honeyed RP tones on Radio 4’s Feedback this weekend.   Just a few seconds. 

I wrote congratulating Paul Gambaccini for his Radio 2 tribute to Michael Jackson last Friday.   (Listen again here, for 7 days)

I thought the programme was a lovely mix of extemporaneous speech and in-depth knowledge of the subject, and I said so in my email.  It’s a very hard trick, sounding knowledgeable while at the same time making it up as you go along and not um-ing or ah-ing. 

The producer rang me, asking if I’d say it over the phone, so I did. 

But because long words always sound a bit more  pretentious when spoken, and because I didn’t want to sound scripted and stilted myself, I stumbled on ‘extemporaneous’ and used ‘off the cuff’ instead.

I love Aviary, a terrific alternative to Photoshop and other image manipulators, that’s used completely online in the browser.  

It’s latest feature is especially cool – just type aviary.com into the browser address bar followed by the address of a web, and it will grab the whole page, scrolling right down to the bottom.

For example, aviary.com/http://www.publicityworks.biz gives the result shown here.

Judging from the smile on his face, we think Tim had fun at the recent French Car Show when he met up with the Flux Babes.

He also got taken at high speed onto the track to experience some drifting. I hope he wore his brown trousers!