If you think you've got it bad now, how would you like to be paid six shillings a ton to collect pebbles along the cold surf in Norfolk?

The females will go outside alone to collect pebbles, but the males did not suspect their female partners.

The work consisted of a solid ball of grey plasticine that was rolled through the streets in Monterrey, collecting dirt, debris and pebbles on its surface.

He has stuffed Buckkeep full of secrets like a magpie collecting shiny pebbles.

When photographing Jones Beach Louis collected pebbles, and painted pictures on them.

She filled her skirt with the best of them and came back across the soft earth, collecting small pebbles in her slippers.

Like trying to collect pebbles on a beach, that would have been.

She collects smooth river-washed pebbles.

"I thought we'd have a lifetime to collect shells and pebbles," Mrs. Green said, "so we tried not to bring home too many on our trips."

Other samples in the area were made using a specially designed rake with tines spaced 1 cm apart to collect small pebbles from the regolith.