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.
And we've seen Patchwork too now, at the Snowdog farewell event. That was a very special day for me, being able to see all the dogs again. The streets of Tyne and Wear feel somehow empty without those dogs.
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 35
Photographed on 4th November 2016
This dog is called Ziggy.
This dog lived, for the duration of the Snowdogs festival, outside the Sage in Gateshead.
The dog was designed by Marcus Brown.
I have now completed half of my special interest project. This is the first of the full size Snowdogs I'm posting about who lived south of the river Tyne. We're moving on to Gateshead now. Later we'll be taking you to Sunderland and South Shields with a few diversions along the way. We'll also show you the rest of the little snowdog packs, a dog who didn't live in Tyne and Wear and a dog who wasn't on the trail at all. Finally I want to show you our pictures of the Snowdogs farewell event, our souvenirs of the hunt and our completion certificates.
I hope to finish my special interest project in the middle of February. That will come as something of a relief to my person because she'll be happy to stop typing about Snowdogs for me. She's got other things to write and she says that I probably won't get to write my blog very often either. I hope Winefride and I still get taken on lots of adventures though.
It was 4th November and we hadn't really got into the fun of Snowdog hunting. On that day we were hunting for a pizza. We just happened to see some dogs on our way to the shop.
Because we weren't Snowdog hunting we didn't take many pictures of this dog.
Here are our pictures of Ziggy.
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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