I'm with Sticky and Rich. Missing it like mad. No Bride cream tea no kipper bap on Peel Harbour eating my chippy tea on the bench outside the Rosmont. Just the simple things.  Then there the rush in the morning to grab some food and drinks and ride to your speck for the day. And watch as the traffic gets less and less. Where else in the world would you sit in a field with your camping kettle listening to a radio for 8 hours. Then you hear that chopper over head and all hell brakes lose.
I'm 54 now but for 2weeks every year I'm 18 again but without the long hair. I went out on the bike yesterday round Ramsbottom Darwin area. And every now and then I could of been riding through Foxdale or heading upto the gosseneck and it brings the smells and that chilled out feeling I don't get any where else in the world. I think when your at the tt you release how lucky you are to be doing something that 1000s of peaple never get to do. The only consolation is it's not just me that won't be there. We was thinking of missing a year soon to take the bike to Iceland. But we now no we need to save enough money to do both. A year away from the island doesn't bear thinking of.