I feel like I’m writing posts like these far too often these days.

Writer Fay Weldon and footballer Gianluca Vialli have both gone from us.

I confess I have not read anything by Weldon but I realise she was an important writer.

Vialli I was more familiar with.

Sad in both cases but Vialli was still relatively young.

Fay Weldon; 22/9/1931 – 4/1/2023: Gianluca Vialli; 9/71964 – 6/1/2023. So it goes.