Ever heard of a flashmob event? It’s where people turn up in a public place and all suddenly start doing something funny at the same time, like singing, dancing… or having a pillow fight!
“I also think it’s like an art form, but mainly it’s about getting people together in a peaceful, fun way.”
An innovative Ministry of Justice (MoJ) scheme for purchasing mattresses and pillows for prisons has won two prestigious awards. 
The department’s Zero Waste Mattress Project won the Guardian newspaper’s Public Service Award for Sustainability on Tuesday, a week after it took the procurement gong at the 2009 Civil Service Awards.
The project involves replacing old and worn mattresses and pillows, which are difficult and costly to dispose of, with new, higher specification ones, the overall cost of which includes disposal. The MoJ expects this to achieve annual savings of £1.2 million.
Since bedding for the 85,000 offenders in UK prisons has to be highly fire retardant, as well as containing no parts that could be used for self harm, suicide, concealment of contraband or harm to others, it could not simply be incinerated. The Prison Service was binning 40,000 used mattresses and pillows each year – the equivalent of 31 double-decker buses going to landfill.
It was dubbed the ‘World’s Largest Pillow Fight’ but in the end, it simply proved that pillows are a pride and joy and too good to be beaten into submission!
The attempt to enter the Guinness World Record for the largest Pillow Fight failed when punters decided to stay in bed with their pillows rather than expose them to a cold, drizzly morning in Penang.
Although the organisers had expected the participation of 4,500 people, only some 500 people turned up at the Penang Times Square at noon Saturday.
Organising chairman Tommy Ooi said the current record holder is a Children In Need event in Mineshead, Somerset in United Kingdom, where more than 3,700 people battled in a pillow fight last year.
Forget pillow fights, how’s this for the world’s largest pillow fright?!
This devil-red gnashing pillow derives from a character in Monster Hunter, named Furu Furu, and is the basis for what many believe to be the world’s scariest pillow due to owners waking in the night and being frightened to death.
The pillow is 105cm long and 28cm in diameter and its ‘mouth’ also functions as a storage pocket for your iPod, PSP, and any other sleepytime provisions – including body parts it happens to bite off in the night.
A new craze is taking over where happy chappies from around the world are taking to their beds and jumping for joy!
Hundreds of photo uploads to Flickr demonstrate sheer bed-bouncing fun as the phenomenon gathers pace, and we’re not surprised – there aren’t many things in life that can beat crashing into a soft landing of duvets and pillows!
Suppose you’ve just got ensure people downstairs aren’t getting the wrong idea!
Here’s our favourite five from Flickr:
"Heck, you got like three feet of air that time."
Our out-of-space branch of Duvet & Pillow Warehouse
One word: BELLYFLOP
Remember boys and girls - they have nine lives!
Pah, the real Superman did that on concrete
We’ve been able to incorporate iPods and pillows for some time now, helping us doze off to dreamland with MP3 lullabies – and providing the occasional nightmare too with Alphabeat! But now there’s a new memory foam version for added comfort that keeps the speakers sewn in. How cool is that?
This musical memory foam pillow will be out in time for Christmas and lets you incorporate any MP3 player, whilst the internal speakers maintain the dome-shape so your comfort is unaffected.
Prices are thought to be around £30.
An American Girl Guides group are giving their hearts away next weekend.
As part of their “stress for less” badge project, the girls have spent six weeks cutting, stuffing and sewing heart-shaped pillows. But instead of brightening up living room sofas, the pillows will land in the arms of heart surgery patients at Scott and White Hospital.
Rachael Clift, one of three co-leaders, said the project was born when the girls came up with ways to be less stressed.
“One of them was to give to others because if you can focus on other people, sometimes that’s helpful instead of concentrating on what you’re stressed about,” she said.
Each troop member gave individual attention to a pillow, picking different fabrics and making them different in little ways. When the pillows were done, however, each girl added the same touch to their individual pillows. Letters, one pinned to each stuffed felt heart, carry words of encouragement for those who going through a grueling recovery process.
We love heart-felt stories like this, especially when they involve pillows too! You go girls.
We all love a little social get-together making use of that big sofa, and now you can take ’social’ to an all new level!
If you can’t get enough of Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, check out these uber-geek pillows to add some squishy cotton-filled, web-themed comfort to your living space.
Other social networks represented in cushion format are Reddit and FriendFeed.
Here at the Duvet & Pillow Warehouse blog, we get so wrapped up in the world of bedding and all the quirky goings-on that sometimes, we forget to remind our readers just how amazing our products are! 
This Christmas, forget your Playstations, iPods and snazzy sweaters – have you not thought about getting your loved one a snug, sumptuous Mulberry Silk duvet? Or how about a Goose Down Dual Chamber Topper, made just for us, all cased in 100% cotton, double stitched and piped. Or what about our Luxury Hungarian pillows -  exceptionally soft, thoroughly lump free and truly long lasting.
And remember, if you share the same bed with the person you’re buying for, you’re effectively treating yourself! How clever is that?
We’re continually proud of our outrageously comfortable duvets, pillows and accessories which are designed for your delight – and we’re still the cheapest in the UK.
Order for Christmas now and you’ll receive free delivery when spending over £20!
We know all about how personal a duvet can become – after all, they’re one of life’s true pleasures. That’s why we weren’t surprised to hear about the special delivery that X Factor’s Lloyd received this week. 
The young Welsh crooner has been experiencing sleep troubles, not helped by the worry of being the show’s rank outsider, and so his mum came to his rescue by sending him his own duvet from home to ensure her son gets a good night’s sleep and can prepare fully for his next live performance this Saturday.
The 16-year-old, from Treharris, has been tossing and turning in the X Factor house, so mum Lisa spent an hour packing his double duvet and pillows before sending them off to London.
Lisa said: “He finds it really difficult to get off to sleep normally, but in the house he only has a single duvet and with the late nights at the weekend, he finds it really hard to unwind. But now he can relax with his own duvet – he can wrap himself up like a sausage roll!
Now, after some comfortable sleep and wide-eyed rehearsals of his song this week, Queen’s Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Lloyd is hoping to win over the public and stay in the competition another week.
As a duvet-lover like us, he’s certainly got our vote!
