Sandcastle Builder Gifts

Al Capone as a child

'I don't have to go to school. My mom teachers me.'

"Leave some shells for less fortunate children."

How Relaxing It Is To Go To The Beach. . . How Close You Live To The Beach.

Beach Sellers: Surfboards, Umbrellas and Trolleys.

"William Blake said you can see the whole world in a grain of sand, but he doesn't always make a lot of sense."

"Nation-building never works."

'Why couldn't you just give him a bucket and shovel?'

Holiday time.

"The tide is coming in, sweetheart!"

Hiding the electronics.

"Mom! Don't think of me as covered with sand. Think of me as sugar coated."

I rather like bucket and spade holidays.

Young Picasso at the Beach

Sunbathers.

"If you hold a shell to your ear you can hear the ocean..."

Bathing-men attend to women on the french coast

Summertime

'we must be near the water because I see a sea gull.'

'Hang on a second, I think I have a sand castle in my shoe.'

"You can build it with me, but you can't wreck it with me."

"In the current market, it's just more practical."

'If that's a proposal, I accept!'

Happy holidays for kids.

"Make a sandcastle with you? Of course darling. What about Thursday 3.15pm?"

'He's going to be an estate agent, just like his Dad.'

"I don't care if you saw this in a western..."

Squirrel on the beach

"Just ignore it. It's a mirage."

"Yeah, that's right. I'm the sandman. Where did you think I was getting my sand all these years?"

Beach flirting

Stonehenge Sandcastle

"City kids."

'Sophie has discovered Gehry.'

Summer reading for the family.