And haven’t we all done it as kids, and big kids, so let’s indulge in a bit of pillow talk?
No, not that, you mucky divils but pillow fighting, because this Saturday is International Pillow Fight Day.
We owe the flash mob, global participation day, to Kevin Bracken.
Kiddie Kev co-founded Newmindspace, an interactive public art group based in New York and Toronto.
With his pal Lori Kufner while they were students at the University of Toronto.
Lie back and laid-back
Now it’s pertinent that the bedroom shenanigans should have been sprung in laid-back Canada.
With the most famous lie-in of them all happening just down the road in Montreal.
When John and Yoko had their lie-in for peace in the Sixties.
Now our pals Kev and Lori are clearly students who have never grown up, a bit like ourselves.
And have also championed bubble battles, capture-the-flag games and even a massive civil war with marshmallow bullets, held in Brooklyn.
More than 150 cities participated in the big pillow fight.
Which, I think we’ll all agree is better than bombing each other… if you’re listening Vladimir and Volodomir.
Celeb central
Now Kev’s pals, the Torontonians and New Yorkers have their share of high-end hotels.
From the Fairmont Royal Hotel where the celebs stay when in Canada’s biggest city…
To the Chelsea Hotel of Canadian poet laureate Leonard Cohen fame and anyone who was anyone really.
Where the feathers would have flown and much else besides.
And, oh, to have been a fly on the walk to hear the pillow talk.
Of course, on all things trans-Atlantic we advise through our own transport experiences.
To fly Aer Lingus with that crucial pre-clearance.
