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 23
Photographed on 13th November 2016
This dog is called Newcastle. United. Inspired.
This dog lived, for the duration of the Snowdogs festival, outside St. James' Park Football Ground.
The dog was painted by Temper who is a very successful graffiti artist, the first solo artist to exhibit in a UK art gallery. I'm sure there are those in the graffiti community who might think of people such as Temper as an art fag. That's the technical term. I learned it a couple of weeks ago when looking at street art on my person's computer. They keep moaning about art fags and they obviously don't like them because sometimes a gorgeous piece of picturing appears on a wall in Newcastle and then people spray ugly black tag marks across it and make the whole thing ugly. They have their views and their reasons but they are also making Newcastle a more ugly place and I don't like that. Especially as I know that some of the people making ugly black tag marks are actually very good at making pretty art and interesting art and challenging art too. I've seen it. Really stunning pieces done by the same people who spray ugly tags in illegal and sometimes shockingly dangerous places. They have talent. They do. I wish they would use it for beauty rather than for prestige within the graffiti tagging community. But that's just my opinion and I'm just a small pink soft toy so who is going to listen to me anyway?
The Snowdogs website is confusing. If I look at Temper's biography page it says he made the dog called Outlines. But if I click on Outlines it's called Newcastle. United. Inspired. I suppose that's a more logical name for this dog because the design is based on the history and exploits of Newcastle United Football Club. That's the big football team in Newcastle where I live with Winefride and my person. We have never been to see them play because I don't think I'd find it exciting and because we never have enough money and would never be able to afford it. Last season Newcastle did very badly at football and got thrown out of their league and put in a lower one. This season they are doing much better at football. At the time of writing this they are at the top of the league they are in and are quite a long way ahead from the team in second place. My person says that when she was little she used to be dragged to football matches played by that second place team and that she was quite bored every time.
My person photographed this dog on 6th November when she was out on her own having forgotten to take Winefride and me out with her to see Snowdogs. Silly person. We had to go back to see the dog on 13th November before going to see a film about a dog at the Side Cinema.
Ooh. I realise now we made a mistake when writing about a couple of other dogs - because I said we didn't see a dog on the 13th. I had quite forgotten that we went to see Newcastle. United. Inspired. Quite forgotten. Sorry dog number 23 that I forgot our special trip to see you. Please forgive me. I wonder how much you will be sold for at the auction. It will have happened by the time this post is published.
Here are our pictures of Newcastle. United. Inspired.
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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