I had a red-haired aunt called Alma who lived in a suburb of Sydney, Cape Breton. When she was young she worked in a ship-chandler's office where they sold equipment to ships. One of the objects in the place was a rolling pin made for use on a ship, a lot bigger and wider than a normal one. When she got married and left the job, the chandler gave her that rolling pin as a wedding present!
My mother remembered a time when she and Alma were kids in a penny candy store. Mother said "Let's buy two cents worth of that," and Alma said "Two cents me eyeball!" A grownup overhead them and was really amused by it, and the next time he met her he repeated, "Two cents me eyeball!"
Aunt Alma had "second sight" sometimes. One night she had a dream where she saw her late father pointing at his ribcage, and the next day her husband had a heart attack! After her brother died she had a dream where he appeared to her, his clothes covered in dust, and said, "I've been to Regulus." She had to look up Regulus in a dictionary, but it turned out to be a star in the constellation Leo!
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