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 3
Photographed on 11th November 2016
These dogs lived, for the duration of the Snowdogs festival, inside Fenwick Department Store in Newcastle Upon Tyne. They lived on the third floor among all the toys.
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 three. We visited it on a day on which we had just enough time to see all of the remaining dogs in Newcastle. We saw this pack and two other packs in the city centre. While taking pictures of the one in the Central Library we had a confrontation with a security guard who said it was bad, bad, bad for us to have our pictures taken with the dogs there. And my person had a bit of a meltdown because she couldn't cope with the confrontation at that time. It was only after noticing that the library is officially an autism friendly space that she was able to seek help from staff there. Another security guard helped her and was autism friendly enough to let Winefride and myself be photographed with dogs. We're all autistic.
But that was later in the day. We enjoyed our visit to see the Fenwick pack a lot and we were able to have some more fun too. My person kept getting photographic challenges. One of the challenges was to photograph a gorilla in a tutu. That morning we had already found pigs in a tutu. In Fenwick we found some gorillas. But they weren't in tutus. That wasn't the challenge for that day though - that was a challenge we hadn't completed another day. On that day we had to find a donkey. We had already found some horses. Then we found a pony. In Fenwick we were able to find a donkey living close to the gorilla. We were glad to have completed that challenge.
We also met Darth Vader. We got to sit on him and he waved his light saber around everywhere. I think he was just showing off. Underneath that rough exterior there is a heart of gold. That was a lot of fun. And we did something very rebellious too. I want to blog about that. It was very exciting, not knowing whether we were going to get told off for breaking a rule.
Oh alright then. I'll show you a rebellion photo. But not rebellion against the evil Empire and Darth Vader.
Here are our pictures of Little Snowdog pack number 3. There were just three dogs in this pack. It was the smallest pack of 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 Kingston, decorated by children from Kingston Park Primary School.
The second dog is called Petalouda, inspired by butterflies, and was decorated by children from Newcastle School For Boys.
The final dog in the little Fenwick pack was called What a Wonderful World, and was decorated by children from Walbottle Village Primary School.
Before we said goodbye to the trio of little dogs we took a couple of pictures of all of them together.
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