Bonding with James Bond

My son David, is insisting we keep up our Father & Son “tradition” by going to watch each new Bond film together, despite the fact he is now a lanky teenager who has found women and booze, who much prefers his “friends” company to that of his relatives! With the new James Bond film Quantum of Solace out today, I have no doubt he will be expecting me to take him this week, having seen Daniel Craig’s first  Bond film and loved it.

I particularly liked the beginning of Casino Royale when Daniel Craig is chasing the free running building hopper chap through a building site through all the window and door frames. As an addict of the Bourne Trilogy, it seems to me that the modern James Bond is almost now a posh Jason Bourne! Anyhow I am looking forward to the Quantum of Solace, and can only hope my son will still want to watch the next James Bond movie in the years to come!

Although I work at Hazlemere Windows Head Offices in High Wycombe, I live in Beaconsfield, which is not far from Pinewood Studios where many a James Bond film has been made, notibly the internal super tanker scenes from the Spy Who Loved Me, which I seem to remember burning down shortly after filming had finished? It is odd that one can bond with ones son with James Bond, but I am delighted it is his desire to keep the tradition going, so well done Ian Fleming! Little did you realise what you were starting!!