Sandcastle Star Gifts

'Well it's o.k. but you should see his Taj Mahal.'

"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.

Bathing-men attend to women on the french coast

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

Sunbathers.

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.'

Happy holidays for kids.

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

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

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

"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

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

Beach flirting

"City kids."

'Sophie has discovered Gehry.'

Summer reading for the family.

Feeling for shells

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

'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?'

'Frank Lloyd Wright's childhood.'

"Dad! I can't believe we come to the beach and you set up all the way out here! I can barely see the ocean...we're so far from the wa..."