Mister Hugh's World of Randomness

Unfortunately the mass pillow fight last saturday didn't turn out quite so massive after all...

Lots of people were away for the weekend, several more had been scared off by the idea that the police would not take kindly to the idea after all the recent terrorism, and there were lots of last-minute cancellations. It was really a case of bad timing, though poor organisation on my part didn't help.

In the end, only seven people turned up, and we didn't really think it was worth going ahead with that many. Four of us made the best of it and had a picnic and wandered around in parks etc. and actually had a thoroughly good time anyway. Indeed we did in fact have a small (but fairly intense) pillow fight in Piccadilly gardens after all, which served as a practice run. Suffice to say the police didn't mistake us for terrorists :-)

But i'm not going to abandon the idea of having a proper pillow fight later on, and next time i'll hopefully be a bit less madly busy and have time to organise it properly. Nor will I be in two minds about what the police will think (that particular worry suddenly seemed very ridiculous when we did the practice fight). So all in all I think the event will go better for having done this small dress rehersal first. In due course i'll announce the date of the next pillow fight, and I hope more people will be around for it this time...