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 eighteenth of eighteen little Snowdog packs.
This pack lived at Washington Arts Centre. We visited them on 14th November.
Eagle-eyed readers will notice that yesterday I posted about the twelfth little Snowdog pack and here I am suddenly positing about the eighteenth pack. Have I gone crazy? No I haven't. I just decided that I wanted to post about all the Snowdogs of Washington in one go rather than take a trip to Sunderland and South Shields and then dart back to Washington for just one more post.
We took a special trip to Washington Galleries shopping centre on 9th November. We hadn't visited before and we haven't visited again. It was very busy and we were a bit overwhelmed by it all but we found the two dogs who lived there. We also found the little Snowdog pack who lived there but by that time we hadn't decided that we wanted to see all the little Snowdogs or that we might want to sit on every one of them. So we hardly took any pictures of the little pack in the shopping centre. It would have been difficult though due to the way the dogs were arranged there. It would have been impossible for me or Winefride to sit on every one of the dogs unless we got our person to climb over barriers. Maybe we should have got her to do it even if that risked her being thrown out. I wouldn't have minded being thrown out because the noise and lights and movement and smells of shopping centres are almost too much for me anyway.
We then decided that we had to see all of the little Snowdogs after all so I had to order my person to take us back to Washington and make a special trip to the arts centre. That's quite a long way from the centre of Washington so to get there we had to take extra buses. It was a fun day though. First we went back to South Shields to see a dog called Rhino The Rescue who had been missing when we went to see him for the first time. Then we had to catch a Metro and a bus to get to the arts centre to see little Snowdogs. Then we had to catch a bus to Washington Galleries - where we should really have gone back to see the little dogs there - and another one to Gateshead. And then in Gateshead I got my person to take us back to The Sage because when we had visited there before we only saw seven of the eight little Snowdogs there. So we had to find the eighth dog didn't we?
Then we had to go to the leisure centre in Gateshead to see another pack of dogs. If we had been little dog finding we would have seen them already because we had visited Gateshead library where a big dog and a little pack lived.. The leisure centre is next door to the library. A one minute walk. Instead we had to walk there from the centre of Gateshead especially to see their pack. I think it was worth it because it meant that we got to see every one of the little Snowdogs.
I'm still tempted to get my person to take us back to Washington during the days I'm posting about the Washington dogs. We could go and see the Galleries pack again. They'll still be there. My person says she would much prefer to do something else. Unfortunately I think she's going to win.
Here are our pictures of the eighteenth Snowdog pack. There were five little Snowdogs at the shopping centre.
To begin with. Here are a couple of group photos. The dogs were a little unruly. This is the best they could do in posing. We could only get three of the five dogs to stand together. The others just wanted to run around the arts centre.
The first dog is called Clematis and was designed by Finchale Primary School.
The second dog is called Buttercup. Buttercup was designed by Portobello Road Primary School.
Dog three of five was called Handy Andy. Like Clematis, it was designed by Finchale Primary School.
The fourth dog was called Hope. Hope was designed by Durham Community Business College.
And finally, a dog called LJ who was designed by Lumley Junior School.
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