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 Pack8
Photographed on 14th November 2016
Hello again. It's after Christmas Day now and I hope that you all had a good time celebrating or not celebrating in whatever way you choose to celebrate or not celebrate.
I've now shown you pictures of every Snowdog who lived north of the River Tyne - excluding Patchwork Northumberland who we didn't see until the Farewell Event and a dog called Splodge who wasn't on the official trail.
I'm now going to start telling you about the dogs who lived south of the Tyne and I'm starting by telling you about the dogs of Gateshead, completely starting with the little snowdog packs from that town. Gateshead was home to several packs, one at the leisure centre, one at the Sage arts centre and one at the big Tesco there.
I am surprised by one thing: There were no Snowdogs or little snowdogs at the Baltic. That's a very big centre for modern art housed in an impressive building. I've been there a few times in my short life. Quite why the Baltic chose not to host a single Snowdog is a mystery to me. I think they missed an opportunity by ignoring the St. Oswald's Snowdog trail.
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 eight, the first of the eleven little Snowdog packs to be living south of the River Tyne.
Here are our pictures of Little Snowdog pack number eight. There were eight dogs in this pack.
We found these dogs on November 14th, the next to last day of our dog hunting. It was a crazy day and we had to plan it carefully in order to see all the dogs we needed to see - including one dog in South Shields who we hadn't been able to see before that because he was ill, and the dogs at Washington Arts Centre which is impossible to reach by Metro.
I'll be sharing my photos in two posts because eight dogs seems to be a lot of dogs for just one post. And I know how much you love the dogs. Who wouldn't love them? Winefride and I loved them dearly and it's sad that we won't be seeing them next year. Never mind, we had a lot of fun finding and seeing them 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 Bow, decorated by children from Hylton Primary Academy.
The second dog is called Celebration of Life, and was designed by children from Ryton Community Infants School.
The third dog is called Hadrian's School Dog and was, as you might guess, designed by children from Hadrian School.
The fourth dog was called Ozzy. You'll be able to tell that I liked Ozzy a lot.
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