Stanza Architect Gifts

"What kind of ambition is that - to be a war poet?"

"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."

"Thanks! Carl put his heart and soul into it, along with, of course, lots of mud and a boatload of his own saliva."

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

Sunbathers.

Yoga classes door.

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.'

'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..."

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

Beach flirting

'Frankly, I prefer the monkey's plans.'

Summer reading for the family.

'Frank Lloyd Wright's childhood.'

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

'Beach snowman.'

Caliologist

"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..."

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

'I think dad is beginning to regret falling asleep on the beach!'

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.'

Vista Acres - A tanned community.

'Look Mum, we've buried Dad in the sand!'