Foxglove Summer

In some households you only have to turn up three times before you’re expected to make your own tea, draw up a chair in front of the telly and call the cat a bastard.

The night may be dark and full of terrors, I thought, but I’ve got a big stick.

This being before Ikea turned up backed by the limitless expanse of the Swedish forests, fabled home to fascist biker gangs, depressed detectives and werewolves.
‘Really?’ I asked. ‘Werewolves?’
‘That’s what I heard,’ said Beverley.
No wonder the detectives were depressed, I thought.

The police have a habit of taking a call sign and using it indiscriminately as a noun, a verb and, on special occasions, a burst of profanity.

The police never saw a noun they didn't want to turn into a verb, so it quickly became "to action", as in you action me do undertake a Falcon assessment, I action a Falcon assessment, a Falcon assessment has been actioned and we all action in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine.