My name is Blob Thing and I am a small pink soft toy. Together with my sister Winefride I have toured across Tyne and Wear over the course of two weeks and together we have attempted to complete the Great North Snowdog Trail. This consisted of us having to find sixty-two Snowdogs and ninety-seven little Snowdogs. That's one hundred and fifty-nine dogs in total.
And that's a lot of dogs.
We almost succeeded too. We managed to see one hundred and fifty-eight of the dogs in their locations. The only one we missed was called Patchwork who wasn't in Tyne and Wear at all. Seeing Patchwork was impossible for us. Never mind. We saw every other Snowdog and little Snowdog and we are very proud of ourselves for this achievement. We've also seen a lot of amazing sights along the way because Tyne and Wear is full of wonderful places.
And we've seen Patchwork too now, at the Snowdog farewell event. That was a very special day for me, being able to see all the dogs again. The streets of Tyne and Wear feel somehow empty without those dogs.
For more information about our amazing quest and the way we were helped by our person, please see my first post on this blog. It can be found at http://blobandthesnowdogs.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/blob-thing-and-winefride-welcome-you-to.html I confess that we all got more than a little obsessive about Snowdogs in the first half of November 2016. There are worse things to get obsessive about.
Please remember that the Great North Snowdogs existed not just as an enjoyable addition to the landscape of our wonderful county of Tyne and Wear but as a way to raise funds for St. Oswald's Hospice which is our local hospice and which does amazing work. To find out more about the hospice and see ways in which you can donate, should you wish to, please head over to their website. It can be found at http://www.stoswaldsuk.org/
I will include the above text in all my posts. It explains everything. If you get obsessive about Snowdogs too then don't feel you should read it every time. That would just be taking obsession a step too far.
Today's post contains pictures of the following Snowdog:
Dog Number 32
Photographed on 4th November 2016
This dog is called Hadrian's Hound - "Amicus Optimus"
This dog lived, for the duration of the Snowdogs festival, on Broad Chare in Newcastle.
The dog was painted by Catherine J Bell, who based her dog on the idea that there is much of Hadrian's Wall buried under the streets of Newcastle. Not an untrue idea.
Unfortunately we only took two pictures of this dog because we weren't on a quest to find all the Snowdogs.
It was November 4th and my person had taken us out on a horrendously difficult quest. After an appointment at a mental health place in Newcastle we had to make our way to locate a particular type of pizza. My person could have chosen a slightly easier option of getting the Metro a couple of stops, getting off it by Tesco and buying a pizza. However, that was far too easy for her. She had to do things the complicated way.
She decided that we would find a strange way to Tesco. It would include the river Tyne and any Snowdogs we saw on the way we could take a picture of. As it turned out it was a great time. We visited a multi-storey car park first and the view from that was beautiful. Later we got to hear Katherine Tickell as she was doing a sound check for a concert that evening in The Sage.
And we saw Snowdogs. Perhaps it was this day that meant we would have to see all of them. Not that I saw any dogs on the 5th. Or any dogs on the 6th either. Somehow my person decided that the quest was on after that. We would find every single dog in Tyne and Wear.
Here are our two photos of Hadrian's Hound. Poor dog. Only two photos.
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