Sandcastle Scientist Gifts

'With the proper technology, we could make silicon chips out of this stuff.'

"Nation-building never works."

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

Holiday time.

"The tide is coming in, sweetheart!"

I rather like bucket and spade holidays.

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

Hiding the electronics.

Young Picasso at the Beach

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

Sunbathers.

Bathing-men attend to women on the french coast

Summertime

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

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

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

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

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

Happy holidays for kids.

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

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

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

Beach flirting

Stonehenge Sandcastle

Squirrel on the beach

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

"City kids."

'Sophie has discovered Gehry.'

Summer reading for the family.

"I said, 'I'm not on duty! I just came back to get my flip-flops.'"

"I wrote a poem, even though I'm on vacation."

'Alex - I didn't know you freckled.'

'Beach snowman.'

"What're you talking about? I love the beach."

'Think, Billy - where did you bury Dad?'