My name is Blob Thing. I am a small pink soft toy who likes going on lots of adventures. I usually travel around with my sister, whose name is Winefride, and with my person. We go to lots of places and I try to encourage my person to do lots more than she otherwise would.
All three of us are autistic.
My person has had lots of struggles in her life but there are lots of things she is able to do as well as lots of things she is not able to do. She is good at writing at writing and taking pictures and is very good at looking after me and Winefride and all our other friends. My person has a blog of her own in which she talks about lots of different things. Her adventures. The things she is grateful for. And in among everything she gets into politics, social justice, transgender experiences, spirituality and of course autism. I like it best when she shares lots of pictures she has taken. Her blog can be found at https://reborn-as-woman.blogspot.co.uk/
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| This is my person |
I struggle too sometimes but am usually very happy. I have another blog where I talk about my many adventures. One day I might get up to date with talking about them but I doubt it because my person has to type my words for me and she is usually too busy to help me with my blog. My blog can be found at blobthing.blogspot.com.
When I write my blog I talk far more than my person ever imagined I would. There are lots of pictures of me having adventures and there are pictures of Winefride too. And I talk about all kinds of things and constantly surprise my person with the things I say.
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| This is me. |
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| This is Winefride. Ooh, she does like cake! |
So that's who we are.
This blog is a very special blog. It's a special project.
For two months in autumn 2016, St. Oswald's Hospice ran a public art exhibition. They decided that they would make lots of Snowdogs and exhibit them across Tyne and Wear. Sixty-two full size snowdogs were created and they were all painted or decorated by different artists or groups. In addition, ninety-seven little Snowdogs were created and these were painted by different schools or children's groups.
All the Snowdogs went on display in the middle of September and the last official day for seeing them was on November 20th.
My person kept seeing Snowdogs and walking past them, ignoring them completely. By the end of October Winefride and I had only been allowed to see two Snowdogs and no little Snowdogs. We had our pictures taken with both of those dogs, Tails of the North East and Hound Dog. Just two of them.
At the end of October my person started to be given photographic challenges by someone very special to me. The challenges came from my creator, the person who made me. On November 1st the challenge was to photograph a white Scottie dog. My person asked if she could take a picture of just any white dog, in case she didn't see a Scottie dog. And that compromise was accepted by my creator.
My person came up with a plan. She would photograph Roodles, who is a pure white Snowdog. And because the photographic challenges are not just a challenge, she decided to take some pictures of other Snowdogs too and see what else she could find. Well the three of us had a fabulous day out in Newcastle.
My person was satisfied with that. But then on November 2nd, after a long quest to find a white horse we happened to pass another Snowdog, named Gizmo. On November 3rd we didn't see any new dogs while searching for a rainbow flag and finding a sculpture park. Then on November 4th while failing to find a gorilla in a tutu we passed quite a lot of dogs and my person took pictures of myself and Winefride with all of them. On November 5th we didn't go out at all.
And then my person suddenly got more interested in the Snowdogs. She got quite obsessed and developed a bit of a special interest in them. She decided to see how many dogs she could see. On November 6th she went for a walk - in the rain - and found some more. But, calamity, she forgot to take me and Winefride out with her. So she has had to go out and find all those dogs again, for our sake because we weren't happy with her at all that day.
After that sad day my person only had a week and a half to look for Snowdogs and she still hadn't seen many. She has worked very hard and we've now seen every single one of the sixty-two big Snowdogs on their plinths, where they're meant to be. Except for one. One of the Snowdogs was a stray and rather than being in Tyne and Wear was placed at Leaplish Waterside Park, Kielder. My person has to rely on public transport. With her head she would never be able to drive a car. And getting to Leaplish and back on buses in November is impossible.
My person then decided that we shouldn't just see the big Snowdogs. We should try to see every one of the ninety-seven little Snowdogs too. So we have had to work even harder on our Snowdog finding. The little Snowdogs were scattered across eighteen locations.
This blog is the result of all our adventures across the county in search of Snowdogs. We have taken pictures of all of the Snowdogs we've seen as we travelled and I am going to show you all the pictures.
We took only a couple of pictures of some of the dogs. But there are lots of pictures of some of the others.
We have had lots and lots of fun tracking down dogs. And we've seen a lot of exciting things along the way. We've been to a few places that we would never have visited if we hadn't been looking for dogs and it's been a most enjoyable experience - even when Winefride and I got very soggy bottoms from sitting on Snowdogs after rain. We didn't mind too much and we soon got dry when we got home.
We hope that you get some enjoyment from our photos of the Snowdogs.
Remember that the entire Snowdog event was to raise money for St. Oswald's Hospice. If you would like to look at their work or donate any money to the hospice their website is at www.stoswaldsuk.org
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