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 40
Photographed on 9th November 2016
This dog is called Snowdog Springtime.
This dog lived, for the duration of the Snowdogs festival, outside Gateshead Central Library.
The dog was designed by Joanna Lumley. My person says you might have heard of her and that she's been in lots of television programmes. I haven't seen any of them though in my one year of life. The dog was painted by Sarah-Jane Richards.
The ninth of November was a good day for Winefride and me. We were being taken out to see Snowdogs again and we were enjoying our excursions a great deal. The ninth took us to a big shopping centre in Washington which we didn't enjoy that much apart from seeing the Snowdogs who lived there. Then we saw some dogs in Gateshead who we hadn't seen yet. We weren't obsessive by that point though. We weren't trying to see all of the little Snowdogs too. So we hardly took any pictures of the little Snowdogs in the shopping centre and totally missed a pack in Gateshead and I had to get my person to take me there on a special trip. On the ninth we visited the library in Gateshead which is called central even though it's quite a long walk from the centre of the town. Then we went to see two dogs who lived in Saltwell Park and then I got to take my sister to the Angel of the North. It was an amazing day even though it wasn't as dry as we would have liked and the ground near the Saltwell dogs was very muddy. I'm glad we didn't fall off those dogs!
Here are our pictures of Snowdog Springtime.
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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