Tuesday, 22 November 2016

Snowdog 08: Shaggy Dog Stories, Found in Wallsend

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. We will be seeing Patchwork too, at the Snowdog farewell event at the start of December.


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 08

Photographed on 8th November 2016

This dog is called Shaggy Dog Stories.

This dog lived, for the duration of the Snowdogs festival, at Richardson Dees Park in Wallsend.

The dog was painted by Chris Riddell.  He's a famous author and an artist too.  He's written lots of books for children.  I don't think my person has read any of them though but she says she's been tempted to plough through one series he wrote, The Edge Chronicles.  Today she finished the first book in a series by someone else, Jonathan Stroud, who also writes children's books.  That must have been a good book because I even heard her chuckle a couple of times.  She seems to have like it too.  I am currently sitting on top of the second book in the series.  Maybe one day she'll try The Edge Chronicles.  Chris Riddell is a very important man.  He's won some medals named after a woman named Kate Greenaway and he's the Children's Laureate too.

I think another series he wrote sounds much more exciting.  My name is Blob Thing.  And this series is called Blobheads.  That sounds good doesn't it?



Here are our pictures of Shaggy Dog Stories.


My person especially liked the mention of haiku because she planned, until it got cancelled, to be at a workshop about haiku the next day.  I think there should be haiku written about Winefride.



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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