Pillow fight in London

I got an invite from a friend the other day to join in with a pillow fighting flash mob in London on Saturday (which I later found out was just one part of an International Pillow Fight Day. We met up just off Trafalgar Square and headed down there to be ready for the hoards of other pillow fighters expected to unveil their pillows and start hitting each other with them. The time came and went and there was no signal to start, so we just headed down the steps and joined in with the others who had turned up.

After a few minutes we were a little disappointed, wondering where everyone else was, and thankfully discovered that most of the action was going on up in Leicester Square. I chickened out of the fighting there - there were just far too many people, and I wanted to take photos instead, some of which will end up on Flickr once I go through the 1Gb of photos I shot.

The event saw feathers flying all over the northern half of Leicester Square, confusing passers by, and even encouraging others to join in the fun. Not even hail stopped the fighting which must have lasted for about an hour in the end.