With light fading, it was time to pack up the buckets and spades.

Maybe we should have brought a bucket and spade."

So do pictures of people on beaches armed with buckets and spades.

Simone raced towards the water with her bucket and spade.

He went out and returned a moment later with a metal bucket and spade.

Young or old, Llandudno will delight all - just remember your bucket and spade.

She could have brought her bucket and spade.

I feel like jumping out and running down to the sea's edge with bucket and spade.

I could do some sand-castling myself if I had a bucket and spade."

There were tired jokes about buckets and spades.

I imagine us having fun with our buckets and spades, barbecues on the beach, days lolling by the sea.

Yeah, with their buckets and spades.

There are also seasonal shops for ways to entertain oneself, such as kite flying, buckets and spades.

The boys had packed their bathing togs and buckets and spades, even though they were only staying one day.

The fan thinks for a second or two and then says 'OK where's the bucket and spade'.'

A third shop, Rooney's, which sold newspapers and buckets and spades, has shut down since the recession hit.

You'll also remember it was quite a lively debate, history lessons, buckets and spades presented to the platform and a good deal of passion.

And as the tide started lapping around our feet, I felt a childish yearning for my bucket and spade.

Scarborough... bracing walks, salty air, fresh fish, buckets and spades.

The children no longer hung onto their parents' hands, but dawdled and squabbled, swinging bright plastic buckets and spades.

She and Hugh were careful to say nothing as they walked down the lane, pretending that this was a normal outing with buckets and spades.

This bailout is like issuing masses of children's buckets and spades in preparation for a massive winter storm:

Children in shorts and striped T-shirts, swinging bright plastic buckets and spades, demanded ice creams.

William Temple ran a mission on the Blackpool sands, preaching from a tub to the buckets and spades.

We put a picnic together hastily, bought buckets and spades and built sandcastles, paddled and sunbathed.

A bucket and shovel sat beside it, waiting for a child to come along.

Should the bear take his tennis racket or his bucket and shovel?

I see their little children hunkered in the surf with toy buckets and shovels.

If you're traveling to the beach, take games and toys like a bucket and shovel to keep your crew entertained.

The free sand buckets and shovels from the sales office depicted people on the beach waving in front of a brilliant sunset.

He dashed out the metal doors and into the kitchen yard to fetch a bucket and shovel.

What he found on the far side was chaos: people running with buckets and shovels, smoke billowing in every direction, flames rampant.

Buckets and shovels!

Throughout this period the clergy and members of the church kept watch on the church with a stirrup pump, buckets and shovels.

The era's equivalent of Club Med did not stock sand buckets and shovels because children did not come.

No one, Mrs. Mittelgluck recalled, "knew what a tennis racket was or what a bucket and shovel were."

Robillard pulled out a tiny bucket and shovel, while Harkle produced a snakeskin glove and a long, painted fingernail.

On Wednesday mornings, the City streets would be strewn with manure, quickly gathered by keen gardeners armed with buckets and shovels.

The little girl scrambled to her feet and started after the boy and the kitten-her bucket and shovel, as well as her sand castles, completely forgotten.

Sewage treatment has always been a dirty business, dating back to the frontier days when "waste management" meant the guy who followed after the horses with a bucket and shovel.

Today she watched the children playing in the distance for a while, but made no move to abandon her bucket and shovel and try to escape down the beach toward them.

Sun had the aircar emptied; Vesey was leading a section with buckets and shovels into the nearest ravine, searching for the water that was supposed to be there.

Hello, Donald. . . Oh, nothing much, just this new back-break section, coming along with bucket and shovel after the Lord Mayor's parade ... Now, listen, Donald, there's this funny little wireless net, Konotop-Prihiki-Poltava, in the southern Ukraine.