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. We will be seeing Patchwork too, at the Snowdog farewell event at the start of December.
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.
I am very excited by today's Snowdog. You will see why when you get to my photographs.
Today's post contains pictures of the following Snowdog:
Dog Number 11
Photographed on 7th November 2016
This dog is called Woof 3000.
This dog lived, for the duration of the Snowdogs festival, at the far end of Quorum Business Park.
My person felt exhausted. She had coped with a two hour assessment of her well being that morning. She was exhausted, exhausted, exhausted. She wanted to go back to bed. But I said "No!"
I wanted to go out and see Snowdogs so I got my person to go out and told her that the walk would do her good. That's the kind of thing humans seem to say to each other. It worked. We did go out that afternoon and we managed to find four Snowdogs before it got too dark to go looking for more.
This Snowdog was to be found at the far end of Quorum Business Park. A long walk.
To get to dog 10, Pink Is The New Black, we had to travel on two Metro trains and then we were told it would be a fifteen minute walk. Along roads we hadn't seen before. That's right, I got my person to do all that in order to reach a business park and see a Snowdog. I'm not sure she properly appreciated the genius of my plan.
To get to this dog we had to walk the entire length of the business park. All the way to the end. We walked past the offices of Tesco Bank which had been in the news just that day for reasons that the bank can't have appreciated. It was a very long way and my person wanted to give up because of her exhaustion. But I said we had to continue and eventually we found the dog. My person called me a hard taskmaster.
And then we had to walk all the way back again. And then it started to rain and my person grumbled and grumbled at me and I told her not to grumble because we were out having an adventure and we could find lots of joy in it even if our adventure had been to walk to a business park and back.
I reminded her that she has pictures from a walk to another business park - which then extended beyond it - and what a good time that had been. I reminded her how she had promised to take me and Winefride on that walk too and that she still hadn't. Winefride hadn't been born when she did that walk but I had and she forgot to take me. Soon I'll be telling you about Snowdog 12 and then some more dogs after that. My person had to go and see them twice because the first time she saw them she had forgotten to take Winefride and me with her. I was very cross that night. Of course I was.
Anyway. We saw dog 10. And we saw dog 11. And we saw two more dogs that day. My person was incredibly tired by the end of it. She felt wrecked by it all. Which didn't stop her from going out the very next day hunting for Snowdogs - some of which I've already posted about because we saw dog number one that day.
She might have grumbled and moaned at me when seeing Woof 3000. But she has to admit that she did enjoy finding them. And she has to admit that she has enjoyed sorting our photos and looking at them again.
The dog was painted by Sophie Green, an artist from Liverpool who also painted one of the Snowdogs in Sunderland.
Here's a little article by Sophie Green. It's not about being an artist. It's mainly about running. But it's also to do with another topic close to my heart. Because Sophie is transgender, just like my person. The last paragraph is particularly good. http://www.thisgirlcan.co.uk/stories/sophie-green/ My person has taken ownership of her own body too. That's not a one-off thing. It's an ongoing process and an adventure in which her thinking has shaped the ownership and then the ownership has shaped her thinking. The thinking and the ownership each become more refined and confident as her transgender life continues. I am very proud of my person. And of Sophie Green.
The official Snowdogs website says that Woof 3000 is "the ultimate low-maintenance companion of the future! Always on guard and won’t chew your shoes. The WOOF-3000 even walks himself!"
Here are our pictures of Woof 3000.
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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