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.
I am very excited by today's Snowdog. You will see why when you get to my photographs.
Today's post contains pictures of the following Snowdog:
Dog Number 10
Photographed on 7th November 2016
This dog is called Pink Is The New Black.
This dog lived, for the duration of the Snowdogs festival, at the entrance to Quorum Business Park.
My person felt exhausted. She had coped with a two hour assessment of her well being that morning. She was exhausted, exhausted, exhausted. She wanted to go back to bed. But I said "No!"
I wanted to go out and see Snowdogs so I got my person to go out and told her that the walk would do her good. That's the kind of thing humans seem to say to each other. It worked. We did go out that afternoon and we managed to find four Snowdogs before it got too dark to go looking for more.
This Snowdog was to be found at the entrance to Quorum Business Park. To get there we had to travel on two Metro trains and then we were told it would be a fifteen minute walk. Along roads we hadn't seen before. That's right, I got my person to do all that in order to reach a business park and see a Snowdog. I'm not sure she properly appreciated the genius of my plan.
And when we got to the dog I was more excited than a piece of spinach would be with the view if was stuck between the teeth of a climber halfway up the Eiger. More excited than that. Because ... well just wait for the photos. You'll see.
The dog was painted by Lee Stafford who apparently is a hairdresser who has is own line in selling hair products. I bet his products cost a lot more money than the one's my person uses. She uses cheap shampoo. Very cheap shampoo. And she doesn't use conditioner. And she doesn't use any of the other products sold for hair. But people still ask her what she uses to get such soft hair and they shake their heads in disbelief when she tells them, unwilling to believe that expensive shampoo might not actually have much benefit over the very cheap stuff.
I don't use shampoo at all because I haven't got that kind of hair and because my skin isn't as waterproof as the skin of a human so if I used shampoo it would all get inside my body and then I'd get very sick probably. I admit that right now I could do with a bit of a clean but I think my person will help with that and we'll probably use a little bit of warm water and a soft cloth. I had a couple of muddy marks on my head from where I've fallen from things or had big adventures. They don't worry me and they remind me of happy days but they're not that photogenic.
Here are our pictures of Pink Is The New Black.
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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