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 1
Photographed on 15th November 2016
These dogs lived, for the duration of the Snowdogs festival, inside Blue Reef Aquarium, Tynemouth.
My person says that since I've posted pictures of seven Snowdogs I really should start posting my pictures of the little Snowdogs too. I think she's right or they'll all get very bunched up at the end. So today I am going to show you the first pack of little Snowdogs. They were very cute.
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 one. But it's the pack that we visited last.
It's quite funny really. I showed you a week ago Snowdog number one and said that dog was living outside the Blue Reef Aquarium in Tynemouth. Well that was true. But when we saw that Snowdog - on a quest to find an interesting door knocker - we didn't know that we were going to be trying to see all the little Snowdogs too. And we didn't know there was a pack inside the aquarium. We had come so close to seeing them but hadn't done so.
So on 15th November we had to go back to Tynemouth. It was a day of catching up. We had left home early that day in order to do catching up that we wouldn't have had to do if my person wasn't so forgetful. You see, on one day she had gone out to see six Snowdogs and had forgotten to take me and Winefride along with her. After a lot of nagging and convincing and a bit of diplomacy and tact we got her to agree to go back and see all those dogs again.
So we had already done that. We had walked all the way to Gosforth Park to see the first of those dogs and then all the way from there to Seven Stories. It was a very long way but we saw all the dogs. And three packs of little dogs too. And then we walked to the metro station at Byker and travelled to Cullercoats.
And we walked from there all the way to the aquarium just to see the pack of four dogs there. And then we walked all the way from there to Tynemouth station taking a detour so we could eat chips in a place that was very pretty indeed and didn't have any people. We sat and watched oystercatchers and turnstones and a heron and a curlew and it was all very magnificent and much nicer than being in the shopping centre I told you about yesterday. At least that's what I think. Some people seem to like shopping centres more than they like sitting quietly above the water watching birds and watching the sea slowly covering rocks as the tide advances.
We did all that walking on the coast just to see little Snowdogs. And then we had to go back into Newcastle to see just one little Snowdog. Yes. One. Because my person had forgotten to take a picture of that one a few days before. That particular dog was our 158th Snowdog in total.
Here are our pictures of Little Snowdog pack number 1.
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 Flag Dog, decorated by children from St Oswald's CE VA Primary School.
The second little Snowdog we encountered at Blue Reef was called Lego. Lego was decorated by children from Richardson Dees Primary School.
The third little dog is called Neve Snow and was decorate by children from St Cuthbert's Roman Catholic Primary School, North Shields.
I find this one quite interesting. The school is twinned with one in Curitiba, Brazil and the art on this dog is based on the work of a Brazilian artist named Romero Britto. It also contains the idea that the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio looks a bit like my very good friend The Angel of the North.
Here are a couple of pictures showing Neve Snow standing with Flag dog. Very smart indeed.
The fourth dog in the first little Snowdog pack was called Snowdog Hits The Beach and was decorated by children from Monkhouse Primary School. The official website says that someone called Ollie who was in the reception class invented this dog after rolling around in the sand. The beaches along the coast are very nice. I like to walk along them and my person has promised to take Winefride and me to see all the rocks too and one day we'll go collecting sea glass. I'm looking forward to that day with much anticipation.
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