For some reason I found the news of Alan Bell's death pretty shocking. In my mind he was about 10 years younger than he apparently was. So he did Hitchhiker's when he was about 40, whereas I thought he was younger when he did that.
I was also hoping he'd someday update his book about the Summerwine years, as I felt he kept some things out when he wrote it back in 2010ish to protect people who were still alive at the time. Or at least do an interview where he answered some questions he didn't address in that book.
Oh well, still a great career and person worth celebrating, of course.