Grow and glow......

The firstborn and I grabbed our passports and took a trip south of the river to Sunderland today (which btw HAS to have the highest concentration of Greggs Bakers shops anywhere in the UK, yep it's pasty central!) to visit the Winter Gardens (lots of pictures of foliage) and The National Glass Centre (just because neither of us had been before) We hit lucky and got to watch a glass bowl being blown, up close and personal.....it was jolly hot!