As you know, I was brung up in Cambridge. There was so much about Tom's work that I recognised and bellowed with laughter about, often when I'd rather no-one heard!
I went to grammar school just around the corner where they taught Meat One and similar apprentice skills back in the day that Wilt relates in hilarious detail. My Dad was also a don at Trinity so I heard all the sort of stories that Tom talked about in Porterhouse Blues and related to them as my dad mocked them too!
One of the best comic novelists of the 20thC and also a significant activist about apartheid that focused my mind. A real warrior imo.
Sleep peacefully and by your passing I hope another generation will engage with your works.