Winter beach work

There is nothing quite like the energy and exhilaration of a winter's beach. Granted it is not the most comfortable of environments, but the beach offers a free thrill for the family, and a most important change of scene that works magic on moods.



B and Little Miss waste no time and get into some serious sand construction. Ideas flow and an objective is formed. "Let's make a sand garden with a moat." There is plenty of cooperation, sharing and compromise that delights me and never seems to occur in the confines of a room. Tasks are delegated, resources are distributed and work commences.

Team work miraculously occurs.


B and Little Miss make do with what they have. Invention and imagination prevail as they look hard and investigate their environment.

Never loosing site of the goal, they stay focussed on their tasks.
And when they reach their objective, celebrations are fleeting...

...as mother nature has a mind of her own.


So the children learn that change is inevitable. Adaptation is required.
"It's a water garden" B declares.
"Wow" thinks their mother, we need to go to the beach more often.