Below an article in the top Aussie newspaper, The Australian, published a few days ago.

The Dominion Post reports a woman with the fine old maori name of Kim Skelton, resigned as a trustee and chair of a maori trust.

Below, the opening line from Britain’s Metro newspaper.

Winston Peters is 100% right. End this unbelievably foolish lockdown right now.

A few years ago I caught up at a funeral with some old school mates I’d last seen half a century back. Naturally the conversation dwelt on what had happened to various people.

In these accounts I heard an expression for the first time in decades that was common in working class Lower Hutt. Evidently various buggers had “passed away”.