Snowdog 13: Es Tu Cosa - Found At Hazelwood Avenue, Jesmond

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 13

Photographed on 15th November 2016

This dog is called Es Tu Cosa.

This dog lived, for the duration of the Snowdogs festival, outside the Saint Oswald's Hospice charity shop on Hazelwood Avenue, Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne.

The dog was painted by Tristan Lathey, an artist from South London.  The dog was inspired by a musician from New York, named Joe Bataan.

Now.  I have to have a moan here.  I'm going to repeat this moan six times because it's a moan related to the finding of six Snowdogs.  I might even moan again when I talk about some little Snowdog packs.

I said that we photographed this dog on 15th November.  That's true.  We saw it on our very last day of Snowdog hunting.  The dogs were going to be leaving their temporary homes on 21st November or as soon after that as they could all be collected so the last day for searching would have been the 20th.  But we were away visiting my creator from the 16th to the 20th so the 15th was our last Snowdog day - and we had only started our quest at the start of the month and had been forced to take days off too.

My moan is this:  My person had already SEEN this dog.

Yes.  It's true.  She had.  She saw this dog - and others - on 6th November.  On that afternoon she had decided to go and see some of the dogs in Newcastle and walk from Gosforth to Seven Stories in Ouseburn.  She would see six Snowdogs and some packs of little Snowdogs too.  She got ready to go out, even though the weather wasn't great, and caught a bus to Gosforth.  When she got there it was hailing and she nearly came straight back home.  But the hail cleared and she reached the first dog.  While walking to the second it rained on her hard and she was glad of her adventure coat.  She persevered and saw all of the six dogs.


BUT she saw the six dogs ALONE.

Yes.  It's true.  She was alone.  She reached the first dog of the day, Addam Upright, and realised she had forgotten to take me with her.  And she had forgotten Winefride as well.  How dreadful.  She.  Had.  Forgotten.  Us.  Did she come back home and collect us?  No she didn't.  She just went to see the dogs on her own.  She says that she was sad when she discovered we weren't with her.  But obviously not sad enough to come and get us.  Oh no.  Not my person.  She carried on regardless.

You can imagine how angry I was when she got back later that day.  I was livid.  I'm usually a very joyful small pink soft toy and my smile is famous, or should be famous, across the world.  I'm a happy person.  But that evening I was cross, cross, cross and I cried a lot too when I realised that we had missed out on seeing dogs.

Eventually my person promised me that she would try to take us out to see those dogs and that she would do her best to make sure that we would see every single one of the dogs we had missed.  She would walk the whole walk again - and as it turned out she walked even further second time round than the had the first.

I calmed down at the news that we would see the dogs.  In the end it worked out very well because we didn't get wet at all when we went to see the dogs we had missed.  She got soaked.  We stayed dry.  Serves her right.  Of the sixty-one Snowdogs we saw these six were the last.

It was a very good day once we came to experience it.  We saw the dogs and three packs of little dogs.  Then we walked to Byker and my person spent 99 pence on four books.  She likes cheap books.  And she likes books to be cheap.  Then we caught a Metro and went to see the Snowdog pack in Tynemouth that I've already posted about.  Then we had a very nice walk and ate some very nice chips in a very nice location.

Winefride and I had a lovely time and now that it's happened I don't mind having missed out on the 6th.  And I am very thankful to my person for taking us on a special trip even though she had already taken the trip.  We picked up our certificates that day too for completing the Great North Snowdog Trail.  I am glad to have my certificate.  And I am glad that we all heartily deserve our certificates.

Here are our pictures of Es Tu Cosa.

Winefride and I liked the message written on the wall behind the dog.  We like kindness.

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.

Firstly, here are our photographs from 15th November.  Glad to be there.

And here are the pictures from 6th November.  The day we got forgotten by my muddleheaded person.

Snowdog 12: Addam Upright - Found at Gosforth Central Park

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 12

Photographed on 15th November 2016

This dog is called Addam Upright.

This dog lived, for the duration of the Snowdogs festival, at the eastern entrance to Gosforth Central Park.

The dog was painted by Tim Miness, who is also known as Captain Longbones.  The dog was sponsored by a firm of accountants which is why it is wearing a suit and why its tie is covered with numbers.

Now.  I have to have a moan here.  I'm going to repeat this moan six times because it's a moan related to the finding of six Snowdogs.  I might even moan again when I talk about some little Snowdog packs.

I said that we photographed this dog on 15th November.  That's true.  We saw it on our very last day of Snowdog hunting.  The dogs were going to be leaving their temporary homes on 21st November or as soon after that as they could all be collected so the last day for searching would have been the 20th.  But we were away visiting my creator from the 16th to the 20th so the 15th was our last Snowdog day - and we had only started our quest at the start of the month and had been forced to take days off too.

My moan is this:  My person had already SEEN this dog.

Yes.  It's true.  She had.  She saw this dog - and others - on 6th November.  On that afternoon she had decided to go and see some of the dogs in Newcastle and walk from Gosforth to Seven Stories in Ouseburn.  She would see six Snowdogs and some packs of little Snowdogs too.  She got ready to go out, even though the weather wasn't great, and caught a bus to Gosforth.  When she got there it was hailing and she nearly came straight back home.  But the hail cleared and she reached the first dog.  While walking to the second it rained on her hard and she was glad of her adventure coat.  She persevered and saw all of the six dogs.

BUT she saw the six dogs ALONE.

Yes.  It's true.  She was alone.  She reached the first dog of the day, Addam Upright, and realised she had forgotten to take me with her.  And she had forgotten Winefride as well.  How dreadful.  She.  Had.  Forgotten.  Us.  Did she come back home and collect us?  No she didn't.  She just went to see the dogs on her own.  She says that she was sad when she discovered we weren't with her.  But obviously not sad enough to come and get us.  Oh no.  Not my person.  She carried on regardless.

You can imagine how angry I was when she got back later that day.  I was livid.  I'm usually a very joyful small pink soft toy and my smile is famous, or should be famous, across the world.  I'm a happy person.  But that evening I was cross, cross, cross and I cried a lot too when I realised that we had missed out on seeing dogs.

Eventually my person promised me that she would try to take us out to see those dogs and that she would do her best to make sure that we would see every single one of the dogs we had missed.  She would walk the whole walk again - and as it turned out she walked even further second time round than the had the first.

I calmed down at the news that we would see the dogs.  In the end it worked out very well because we didn't get wet at all when we went to see the dogs we had missed.  She got soaked.  We stayed dry.  Serves her right.  Of the sixty-one Snowdogs we saw these six were the last.

It was a very good day once we came to experience it.  We saw the dogs and three packs of little dogs.  Then we walked to Byker and my person spent 99 pence on four books.  She likes cheap books.  And she likes books to be cheap.  Then we caught a Metro and went to see the Snowdog pack in Tynemouth that I've already posted about.  Then we had a very nice walk and ate some very nice chips in a very nice location.

Winefride and I had a lovely time and now that it's happened I don't mind having missed out on the 6th.  And I am very thankful to my person for taking us on a special trip even though she had already taken the trip.  We picked up our certificates that day too for completing the Great North Snowdog Trail.  I am glad to have my certificate.  And I am glad that we all heartily deserve our certificates.

Here are our pictures of Addam Upright.

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.

Firstly, here are our photographs from 15th November.  Glad to be there.

And here are my person's pictures from 6th November.  Winefride and I are conspicuous by our absence.

Little Snowdog Pack 03: Fenwick Department Store, Newcastle Upon Tyne

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.

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 Snowdogs:

Little Snowdog Pack 3

Photographed on 11th November 2016
 
These dogs lived, for the duration of the Snowdogs festival, inside Fenwick Department Store in Newcastle Upon Tyne.  They lived on the third floor among all the toys.

All together there were ninety-seven little Snowdogs to find and each one had been decorated by children from different places.  The little Snowdogs, for their own safety I think and so they would have some sane conversation at night like I do with all my friends, had gathered themselves together into packs of dogs.  The smallest pack had three dogs in it and the largest had nine dogs.  And we went to see them all.

Some of the packs I will show you in just one post.  Others will take more than one post.  When there are eight or nine dogs there are a lot of pictures.

The pack I am showing you today is officially pack number three.  We visited it on a day on which we had just enough time to see all of the remaining dogs in Newcastle.  We saw this pack and two other packs in the city centre.  While taking pictures of the one in the Central Library we had a confrontation with a security guard who said it was bad, bad, bad for us to have our pictures taken with the dogs there.  And my person had a bit of a meltdown because she couldn't cope with the confrontation at that time.  It was only after noticing that the library is officially an autism friendly space that she was able to seek help from staff there.  Another security guard helped her and was autism friendly enough to let Winefride and myself be photographed with dogs.  We're all autistic.

But that was later in the day.   We enjoyed our visit to see the Fenwick pack a lot and we were able to have some more fun too.  My person kept getting photographic challenges.  One of the challenges was to photograph a gorilla in a tutu.  That morning we had already found pigs in a tutu.  In Fenwick we found some gorillas.  But they weren't in tutus.  That wasn't the challenge for that day though - that was a challenge we hadn't completed another day.  On that day we had to find a donkey.  We had already found some horses.  Then we found a pony.  In Fenwick we were able to find a donkey living close to the gorilla.  We were glad to have completed that challenge.

We also met Darth Vader.  We got to sit on him and he waved his light saber around everywhere.  I think he was just showing off.  Underneath that rough exterior there is a heart of gold.  That was a lot of fun.  And we did something very rebellious too.  I want to blog about that.   It was very exciting, not knowing whether we were going to get told off for breaking a rule.

Oh alright then.  I'll show you a rebellion photo.  But not rebellion against the evil Empire and Darth Vader.

Here are our pictures of Little Snowdog pack number 3.  There were just three dogs in this pack.  It was the smallest pack of all.

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.

This first dog is Kingston, decorated by children from Kingston Park Primary School.

The second dog is called Petalouda, inspired by butterflies, and was decorated by children from Newcastle School For Boys.

The final dog in the little Fenwick pack was called What a Wonderful World, and was decorated by children from Walbottle Village Primary School.

Before we said goodbye to the trio of little dogs we took a couple of pictures of all of them together.

Snowdog 11: Woof 3000 - Found at Quorum Business Park

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.


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 11

Photographed on 7th November 2016

This dog is called Woof 3000.

This dog lived, for the duration of the Snowdogs festival, at the far end of 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 far end of Quorum Business Park.  A long walk.

To get to dog 10, Pink Is The New Black, 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.

To get to this dog we had to walk the entire length of the business park.  All the way to the end.  We walked past the offices of Tesco Bank which had been in the news just that day for reasons that the bank can't have appreciated.  It was a very long way and my person wanted to give up because of her exhaustion.  But I said we had to continue and eventually we found the dog.  My person called me a hard taskmaster.

And then we had to walk all the way back again.  And then it started to rain and my person grumbled and grumbled at me and I told her not to grumble because we were out having an adventure and we could find lots of joy in it even if our adventure had been to walk to a business park and back.

I reminded her that she has pictures from a walk to another business park - which then extended beyond it - and what a good time that had been.  I reminded her how she had promised to take me and Winefride on that walk too and that she still hadn't.  Winefride hadn't been born when she did that walk but I had and she forgot to take me.  Soon I'll be telling you about Snowdog 12 and then some more dogs after that.  My person had to go and see them twice because the first time she saw them she had forgotten to take Winefride and me with her.  I was very cross that night.  Of course I was.

Anyway.  We saw dog 10.  And we saw dog 11.  And we saw two more dogs that day.  My person was incredibly tired by the end of it.  She felt wrecked by it all.  Which didn't stop her from going out the very next day hunting for Snowdogs - some of which I've already posted about because we saw dog number one that day.

She might have grumbled and moaned at me when seeing Woof 3000.  But she has to admit that she did enjoy finding them.  And she has to admit that she has enjoyed sorting our photos and looking at them again.



The dog was painted by Sophie Green, an artist from Liverpool who also painted one of the Snowdogs in Sunderland.

Here's a little article by Sophie Green.  It's not about being an artist.  It's mainly about running.  But it's also to do with another topic close to my heart.  Because Sophie is transgender, just like my person.  The last paragraph is particularly good.  http://www.thisgirlcan.co.uk/stories/sophie-green/  My person has taken ownership of her own body too.  That's not a one-off thing.  It's an ongoing process and an adventure in which her thinking has shaped the ownership and then the ownership has shaped her thinking.  The thinking and the ownership each become more refined and confident as her transgender life continues.  I am very proud of my person.  And of Sophie Green.

The official Snowdogs website says that Woof 3000 is "the ultimate low-maintenance companion of the future! Always on guard and won’t chew your shoes. The WOOF-3000 even walks himself!"

Here are our pictures of Woof 3000.


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.

Snowdog 10: Pink Is The New Black - Quorum Business Park

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.


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.

Little Snowdog Pack 02: Eldon Gardens - The Last Three Dogs

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.

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 Snowdogs:

Little Snowdog Pack 2, the last three dogs

Photographed on 11th November 2016
 
These dogs lived, for the duration of the Snowdogs festival, inside Eldon Garden, Newcastle Upon Tyne.

All together there were ninety-seven little Snowdogs to find and each one had been decorated by children from different places.  The little Snowdogs, for their own safety I think and so they would have some sane conversation at night like I do with all my friends, had gathered themselves together into packs of dogs.  The smallest pack had three dogs in it and the largest had nine dogs.  And we went to see them all.

Some of the packs I will show you in just one post.  Others will take more than one post.  When there are eight or nine dogs there are a lot of pictures.

The pack I am showing you today is officially pack number two.  We visited it on a day on which we had just enough time to see all of the remaining dogs in Newcastle.  We saw this pack and two other packs in the city centre.  While taking pictures of the one in the Central Library we had a confrontation with a security guard who said it was bad, bad, bad for us to have our pictures taken with the dogs there.  And my person had a bit of a meltdown because she couldn't cope with the confrontation at that time.  It was only after noticing that the library is officially an autism friendly space that she was able to seek help from staff there.  Another security guard helped her and was autism friendly enough to let Winefride and myself be photographed with dogs.  We're all autistic.


Here are our pictures of Little Snowdog pack number 2.  There were six dogs in this pack.  I'm going to show them two you in two blog posts because we have so many pictures.  Today I'm showing you the last three wonderful dogs.

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.

This first dog is Seadog, decorated by children from Lord Blyton Primary School.

This dog is called Nature Pup, and was decorated by children from South Gosforth Primary School.  Winefride really, really liked Nature Pup and insisted we take extra pictures.

The final dog was called Crystal, and was decorated by children from Darras Hall First School.

Finally, here's a group shot.

Little Snowdog Pack 02: Eldon Garden, Newcastle - First Three Dogs

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.

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 Snowdogs:

Little Snowdog Pack 2, the first three dogs

Photographed on 11th November 2016
 
These dogs lived, for the duration of the Snowdogs festival, inside Eldon Garden, Newcastle Upon Tyne.

All together there were ninety-seven little Snowdogs to find and each one had been decorated by children from different places.  The little Snowdogs, for their own safety I think and so they would have some sane conversation at night like I do with all my friends, had gathered themselves together into packs of dogs.  The smallest pack had three dogs in it and the largest had nine dogs.  And we went to see them all.

Some of the packs I will show you in just one post.  Others will take more than one post.  When there are eight or nine dogs there are a lot of pictures.

The pack I am showing you today is officially pack number two.  We visited it on a day on which we had just enough time to see all of the remaining dogs in Newcastle.  We saw this pack and two other packs in the city centre.  While taking pictures of the one in the Central Library we had a confrontation with a security guard who said it was bad, bad, bad for us to have our pictures taken with the dogs there.  And my person had a bit of a meltdown because she couldn't cope with the confrontation at that time.  It was only after noticing that the library is officially an autism friendly space that she was able to seek help from staff there.  Another security guard helped her and was autism friendly enough to let Winefride and myself be photographed with dogs.  We're all autistic.


Here are our pictures of Little Snowdog pack number 2.  There were six dogs in this pack.  I'm going to show them two you in two blog posts because we have so many pictures.  Today I'm showing you the first three wonderful dogs.

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.

This first dog is Arnold Snowflake, decorated by children from The Dales Specialist School.

The second dog is called Sand Dancer, and was painted by children from Biddick Hall Junior School.

And this third dog is called Snowflake, painted by children from Marine Park Primary School.