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 05
Photographed on 8th November 2016
This dog is called Rover Codex
This dog lived, for the duration of the Snowdogs festival, in Northumberland Park, Tynemouth.
Rover Codex is a very pretty dog. It's decorated with lots of Celtic knotwork and you can see a wild goose on it too. Rover Codex was inspired by the Lindisfarne Gospels.
The dog was painted by Ellie Tarratt who is a local artist and props manager who has made things for people not just in the UK but in Australia too.
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. We would have found eleven but Rhino to the Rescue was poorly and in hospital that day so we had to go back and see them on another day.
We actually found this dog before dogs 3 and 4 who we found on the same day. The first five dogs formed a very pleasant walk from Cullercoats Metro to the Tyne Ferry. It would have been a very nice walk even without Snowdogs to see. That wasn't the end of our walking that day though.
We all had fun in the park too. Winefride and I met a lion who was friendly enough to let us sit with him. And my person went on a zip wire and even videoed the experience because it was so fun. She likes zip wires. She used to say she hated them but then my person convinced her to try them again in a park in Ruabon or Rhiwabon. She liked it so much that she went on it over and over again. My person said to try it. And she tried it. And she was glad. That was an excellent day. It was the day after my sister Winefride was born. I've written about the day on my main blog and recently wrote about our quite scary experience on Wrexham or Wrecsam railway station when Winefride and I nearly got arrested by these two policemen.
Here are our pictures of Rover Codex.
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.
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