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 7
Photographed on 15th November 2016
I could moan. I've moaned about this before. We saw this pack of dogs on the day we went out to see six Snowdogs that my person had seen before. Winefride and I hadn't seen them because my person forgot to take us out that day. On 15th November she was making amends by taking us to see those dogs - which I've just blogged about recently - and the little Snowdog packs along the way.
It serves her right though. On 6th November, the day she forgot to take us out, not only did she get very wet but she only saw two of the little Snowdogs in this pack. She missed out on some dogs and that's funny.
These dogs lived, for the duration of the Snowdogs festival, inside The Biscuit Factory art gallery in Newcastle. My person got quite confused when she took Winefride and me to see them. When she had visited on her own the little dogs were scattered, each on their own, in different parts of the gallery. When we went back she walked through the door and noticed that the dog near the entrance had vanished. I have to tell you that she panicked a bit. But it was okay. In our absence the dogs had all climbed the stairs and were sitting in a group near to the large Snowdog, Gingerbread, who was at the gallery.
They're not the only little dogs to have a life of their own either. The little Snowdog pack at Newcastle Central Library have completely moved around at least twice. Every time we've been there the dogs have moved. I think that during the night they go and explore and play games in the library and take it in turns to go up and down in the lift so they can look through the glass doors. They remember to get back to the ground floor by the time the security man, possibly Tony, comes to unlock the doors in the morning. But they forget where they had been standing and hope that nobody will notice that they've been so active in the night. I don't think anyone from the library has paid enough attention to them to notice. But I have and so has my person.
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 seven, the last of the seven little Snowdog packs to be living North of the River Tyne.
Here are our pictures of Little Snowdog pack number seven. There were six dogs in this pack.
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 Fun at the Seaside, decorated by children from Dame Allan's Junior School.
The second dog in the pack was called Spotty Rainbow Dog, invented by Isabelle, from Dame Allan's Junior School.
And the third lovely dog was Patch, invented by Ellie, another student from Dame Allan's Junior School. A very busy dog creation school.
I'm going to carry on and include all six dogs in one enormous dog post. Here's the fourth dog, Sunshine, created by children from Brunton First School.
The fifth dog was called Peace, and was also created by children from Brunton First School.
And the final dog in the seventh little Snowdog pack - the very last one I have left to show you who lived north of the Tyne - was called Charlie, and was designed by children from Sir Charles Parsons School.
Sir Charles Parsons was an engineer who worked in Newcastle. He designed steam turbines for ships including the turbine powered yacht Turbinia which can be seen in the Discovery Museum.
Finally, a group shot of the little dogs.
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