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 09
Photographed on 8th November 2016
This dog is called Patchwork.
Well isn't that confusing. I've already told you that we didn't get to see the dog called Patchwork. And here I am telling you that this dog is called Patchwork. It's true. We didn't. And it is. It's a paradox only solved by the realisation that there were TWO dogs called patchwork. You read that right! TWO dogs! All the other dogs had different names. Some of the little Snowdogs had the same name too, Patch. That was confusing too and it got even more confusing because two dogs called Patch were living together in The Sage in Gateshead. How was anyone to know which was which?
This dog lived, for the duration of the Snowdogs festival, at Richardson Dees Park in Wallsend.
The dog was painted by Jill Barklem and the design is based on her stories. She wrote the Brambly Hedge series
That was the last dog we saw on 8th November. We had already seen nine dogs and we would have seen another one but it wasn't there. Winefride and I both sat on its plinth and wept because we couldn't see it. But my person took us back to see it on 14th November and it was there then and it did look very sparkly indeed and happy to be back in South Shields.
Here are our pictures of Patchwork.
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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