Snowdog 04: Skipper, Found on the Fish Quay, Tynemouth / North Shields

Hello again.

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.

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 04

Photographed on 8th November 2016

This dog is called Skipper and was inspired by North Shields and the River Tyne

This dog lived, for the duration of the Snowdogs festival,on the Fish Quay at Tynemouth.

The dog was painted by Joanne Wishart.  She is an award winning artist and had the privilege of painting not just one, but two Snowdogs.  It will be a while before I show my photographs of the other dog because that one is Tails of the Sea who lived in Sunderland and who was the 46th dog on the official trail.



We found this dog when on a photographic challenge.  My person had been asked to look for interesting door knockers and door handles.  She found some that fit the bill.  We combined the challenge with a long day of Snowdog finding and managed to find ten Snowdogs in a day.



Here are our pictures of Skipper.

You can see how excited and happy both Winefride and I were to be on the trail of Snowdogs.  We have had an amazing time.  And I think our person has enjoyed herself too.