What women did for men

'Oh George,' I sighed, as I wandered from one room to the other and back again trying to remember what it was I wanted, 'I'm going doolally-twp.'
'Well,' George said, 'I haven't heard that phrase for a long time.'

I learned it from Auntie Vi, my gran's sister, when she moved in to look after us when my mum died and my gran was in hospital. I learned other things from her too including all the words of the poem, The Women of Mumbles Head.

Bring novelist, your notebook, bring dramatist, your pen, 
And I'll tell the simple story of women did for men.
'Tis only a tale of the lifeboat, of the dying and the dead,
of a terrible storm and shipwreck that happened off Mumbles Head.

Auntie Vi knew lots of things including some words you might not have expected a past president of the local WI to know. But she was never offensive, mainly because she was usually laughing when she said them. 

Auntie Vi, unlike my gran, laughed a lot and at such a gloomy period in my life she was a tonic.