This coming week will be a very eventful one. I watched the first full F1 race today from Brazil in respect of Michael Schumacher. It was his last race in Formula 1 and a new era starts (I'm not going to watch that many races as F1 will never beat MotoGP or WSBK for thrills). Next Thursday is press day at the NEC show in Birmingham and we'll be two photographers on the floor to get all the new bikes and babes. The NEC show always feature a lot of glamorous babes and we'll shoot them all. Then it's time for the most exciting race this year at Valencia when the two top MotoGP teams will fight it out for the title. Rossi vs. Hayden usually means Rossi will pick the longest straw, but Nicky have beaten Rossi more than once this year and surely the motivation will be there. I guess Repsol Honda will use team orders to control the hormones of Spanish man for the future, Dani Pedrosa, this time around. Too much is at stake for Honda. Personally I felt a bit blue after partying at just Blue in the Northern Quarter in Manchester with mates this weekend. I love the Northern Quarter and it's very close to where I lived in Manchester before. Tomorrow I'll head up to Aprilia HQ or the garage in Walkden to pick up the mini racer RS 125. I love the little things and hopefully the weather will be nice enough for a couple of rounds on the Cat & Fiddle road. Since moving from Buxton to Sutton Coldfield I have missed the Cat & Fiddle so much that I'm now back in Manchester. It's THE party place in England outside of London and I didn't realise how much I had missed that until I got back in business this weekend. These last two years have been incredible, I have gone from big city life in Manchester city centre to rural Buxton to suburbia hell in Mere Green, Sutton Coldfield and now back to Manchester. You wouldn't notice a thing as I can pretty much work from any place in the world, but the quality of pictures will be better when the Peak District creates the backdrop. See you around... TS