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 5
Photographed mainly on 11th November 2016 with a few on 1st November and the last one on 15th November
These dogs lived, for the duration of the Snowdogs
festival, inside Newcastle Central Library in Newcastle.
We
had trouble with these dogs. The only time we ever had trouble with
Snowdogs. Not with the dogs themselves. Oh no. They were wonderful.
But when Winefride and I went to meet the dogs properly on 11th November
(having met a few of them already on 1st November) and have our
pictures taken with them it all went wrong. A man came over and talked
to my person in a very rude manner and said it was a bad, bad thing for
us to sit on the dogs. She got very told off - even though a woman from
the hospice had said that our photographic quest was a good thing. She
was already feeling bad that day, short of energy and her head was
struggling a lot and she was only still out for the sake of me,
Winefride and the dogs. She couldn't cope any longer and melted. It
was horrible to see. She ended up collapsed on the floor of the library
between one of the dogs and the window and kept saying the same few
words over and over again and she was in quite a lot of distress.
Nobody came to offer her any help though.
She had to get
herself out of the situation. I tried to help but I had to look after
Winefride too because she was getting worried about our person and she
might have melted too if I hadn't held her tightly and comforted her.
I'm just one small pink soft toy and I'm autistic too and it's hard for
me and there I was having to cope with looking after not just Winefride
but my person. Winefride was my first priority because having her melt
too would have made everything much more difficult. I'm afraid my
person had to fend for herself mostly.
Eventually she
happened to look up and saw a changing screen and at that moment it
happened to say that Newcastle Central Library is an autism friendly
place. She slowly calmed down and went to talk to a friendly looking
woman and talk about autism and about everything that had happened and
to ask whether Winefride and I could have our photos taken on the dogs.
The woman didn't know but she went to ask another man who was a lot
more friendly than the first man. His name was Tony and Tony said we
could have our pictures taken. He was a very nice man.
We
took our photos. But with all the difficulties my person later
realised that we had forgotten to meet one of the nine dogs, Saint
Bark. So a few days later we had to take a special trip back to the
library to meet one little Snow Dog.
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 five.
Here are our pictures of Little Snowdog pack number 5. There were nine
dogs in this pack. I'll be sharing the photos across more than one blog post because there were so many dogs in the library. I showed you pictures of the first for dogs last time.
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 fifth dog is READee REx, decorated by children from Malvin's Close Primary Academy.
The sixth dog is called George, and was named after George Stephenson. George was created by children from Stephenson Memorial Primary School.
The seventh dog was called Pawprints in the Snow, created by children from Denbigh Community Primary School.
The eighth dog in the Central Library pack was called King Edward VI School's Dog and you can probably guess who might have decorated this dog.
The final dog in the pack, but not the least important of course, was called WAGGGS, decorated by children from Girlguiding North Tyneside.
We also took a couple of group shots but it was difficult to get all the dogs in the picture.
After seeing the dogs on 11th November, Tony took us to where there was a Snowdog toy and we had our picture taken with the toy. Tony was a very helpful man. We saw him again a few days later when we were on our way to see my creator. He didn't need to help us that day but he was just as friendly.
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