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[Santa]

It's the weekend. Saturday night, in fact, and some of us are here on CB.n, about which no comment needs to be made. I've spent the day doing a lot of resting because it's been a heavy week at work and because I have a big day out tomorrow. I imagine a lot of you are similarly boring (and that's not meant as an insult, BTW). What about James Bond?

Now, we know that while Bond is not away on assignment, he spends plenty of time as a desk jockey, faffing about with paperwork and enduring the attendant boredom. In the evening he may go out to dinner with a laydee. But now I wonder, what does Bond do at the weekend? I think it's fairly safe to say he doesn't catch up on Sky+ episodes of Jersey Shore or get stuck into a Jilly Cooper, and he doesn't have a dog to walk. I'm sure he does some exercise, plays a little golf, maybe pops into the shooting range, but that doesn't sound like a lot to fill potentially 104 days of the year, plus bank holidays . What do you think Bond gets up to on his weekends in England?

[DamnCoffee]

I'd like to think he plays on Call of Duty and catches up on the latest episode of Doctor Who with a nice bowl of ice cream. (This isn't what I do, promise.)

[Dustin]

Great idea for a thread, Santa!


I suppose Bond spends this weekend sailing. He's a member of the St Helier Yacht Club and this Friday chartered a ketch to cruise the difficult waters north of Plemont Point. The weather forecast has been relatively good for August, 62•F and south-western gusts to make the exercise worthwhile. He'll be up nearly 50 hours because of a sudden unexpected storm from the Atlantic and return the boat Sunday afternoon, dog-tired, famished and with burnt face and raw hands. But feeling more alive than in years.

[Santa]

he plays on Call of Duty

I feel a little faint. And not in a good way.

I suppose Bond spends this weekend sailing. He's a member of the St Helier Yacht Club and this Friday chartered a ketch to cruise the difficult waters north of Plemont Point.

Now that sounds just right. That's exactly what he would do. But somehow I get the feeling you're talking about what Dustin does rather than what Bond does...

[Dustin]

No, no. I'm not a member of St Helier's, far too posh...

[Santa]

Quite often on Sundays (not at this time of year because it's too hot, but the rest of the year), I take the dog on a good long walk (four or five hours) on a path that runs along the seafront. If I'm with a friend, we'll stop at one of the restaurants in the harbour at the end of the path and order a spectacular seafood platter lunch, then we'll walk a bit more. I like to think that Bond would enjoy spending the day in that way if he were to, erm, find himself at my house on a Sunday morning. After the walk we'd go home, put the fire on and maybe watch a DVD with some ice-cream. For me, that is. I can't see Bond wanting the Ben & Jerry's.

[Double-0-7]

This agent went for a spirited ride in an expensive car this morning and then enjoyed a nice round of golf at the club. I know those are two things that Bond does in the books, so why not this weekend?

[Binyamin]

Bond belongs to the Capital Prestige Car Club and enjoys taking various Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and Aston Martins out -- both for enjoyment and to keep his performance driving skills sharp. This weekend, a precocious redhead is coming along for a spirited ride.

Edited by Binyamin, 13 August 2011 - 11:54 PM.

[AMC Hornet]

...After that he drops into the Lounge of Solace for a quick one. Anyone care to catch up with him (and me) there?

[jaguar007]

I don't know what he did this weekend, but I hear a couple weekends ago he went to see Cowboys and Aliens

[Conlazmoodalbrocra]

I heard he's a season ticket holder at Inverness Caledonian Thistle...

[Professor Dent]

Seems like a good weekend for some target shooting & then a good cleaning of the gun afterwards. But maybe I just think that because it's raining here.

[Jim]

He dances into the fire. The weekend's why.

[Skudor]

No doubt he takes a female acquaintance somewhere out of the city in the Bentley, possibly for a sleepover.

[MkB]

That's a funny thread, Santa!
I'd like to think that Bond follows Dustin's suggestion - besides, there would be some logic for a naval officer to do some sailing, at least in his spare time...

But, really, if Fleming's hints to his spare time activities is to be believed, isn't Bond the most boring bloke we know? I'm not sure I'd like to have dinner with someone

• who visits casinos rather than museums or an exhibitions,
• who can pick up as a travel book a manual of golf techniques (I mean... really?),
• whose idea of great fun is to twiddle with the double-exhaust on his ridiculously expensive car (not very promising, if you ask Dr Freud),
• who is too lazy to cook his own breakfast,
• and who is so pathologically womanizing that it becomes annoying?

Someone once said that James Bond is "the man every woman wants between her sheet". Yes, "between her sheets", not "as a dinner date", because really they don't want to have to chat with him


PS: Dustin, BTW, you reminded me my old good resolution to become a member of a Yacht Club...

[Guy Haines]

It's mentioned in the Bond books, and Craig hinted at it in CR. Gambling. Booze. Women who are married to someone else. (Keeps things simple, as Bond said in the film Casino Royale.)

Can't help wondering what kind of a weekend Bond had at the end of the book "Moonraker". Monday evening he beats Drax at bridge. Friday afternoon he's saved London from a nuclear holocaust. And he still doesn't get the girl! I expect he reverted to the usual weekend formula of:-

Gambling. Booze. Women who are married to someone else.

(Plus, he had that cheque from Drax for £15,000. Assuming it didn't bounce!)

[Santa]

Someone once said that James Bond is "the man every woman wants between her sheet". Yes, "between her sheets", not "as a dinner date", because really they don't want to have to chat with him

Yep, I have often had similar thoughts. Add to that his fussiness about only eating this kind of marmalade or only wearing that kind of shirt or PJs and he veers dangerously into 'prissy ' territory!

[Miles Miservy]

he plays on Call of Duty

I feel a little faint. And not in a good way.

I suppose Bond spends this weekend sailing. He's a member of the St Helier Yacht Club and this Friday chartered a ketch to cruise the difficult waters north of Plemont Point.

Now that sounds just right. That's exactly what he would do. But somehow I get the feeling you're talking about what Dustin does rather than what Bond does...

He kills everyone & smokes a bunch of cigarettes (oh.. no wait; that's what Joe Hallenbeck from THE LAST BOY SCOUT would do. Soory, my fault)

[00Twelve]

Someone once said that James Bond is "the man every woman wants between her sheet". Yes, "between her sheets", not "as a dinner date", because really they don't want to have to chat with him

Yep, I have often had similar thoughts. Add to that his fussiness about only eating this kind of marmalade or only wearing that kind of shirt or PJs and he veers dangerously into 'prissy ' territory!

See, I think he keeps more of that neurotic stuff in his head, but that's just me. I think he definitely takes in some golf on Saturday before the occasional game of cards, some motoring on Sunday afternoon, and perhaps some tennis here and there where he meets the married women he tends to spend more time sleeping with.

[domnule alb]

Someone once said that James Bond is "the man every woman wants between her sheet". Yes, "between her sheets", not "as a dinner date", because really they don't want to have to chat with him

Yep, I have often had similar thoughts. Add to that his fussiness about only eating this kind of marmalade or only wearing that kind of shirt or PJs and he veers dangerously into 'prissy ' territory!

See, I think he keeps more of that neurotic stuff in his head, but that's just me. I think he definitely takes in some golf on Saturday before the occasional game of cards, some motoring on Sunday afternoon, and perhaps some tennis here and there where he meets the married women he tends to spend more time sleeping with.

Pretty spot on, but I can also see Bond in the Deaver image catching a little F1 racing on the telly, although he is more interested in a book he's reading (cards, golf, fighting techniques) than the telly.

[darkpath]

Bond strikes me as more participatory in single person sports than someone to watch sports, especially team sports. I would guess that Bond would enjoy competing in amateur triathlons, likely under an assumed name (perhaps even his non-official cover or NOC).

[SecretAgent007]

Doesn't Fleming state that Bond does not own a TV? (if you are strictly going the Fleming route)

Not sure about the sailing either. Naval Intel during WWII wouldn't have had him on a boat necessarily.

I could see him playing golf or sitting at home listening to jazz records, sneaking around with a few married woman..maybe working on his self defense manual...?

[Dustin]

Oh, that sailing needn't come from NI, it would be a privately acquired passion. 'Doctor No' has Bond sailing for part of the trip to Crab Key while Quarrel sleeps in the prow and he seems to do ok.

Edited by Dustin, 08 September 2011 - 07:33 PM.

[SecretAgent007]

IC somehow I got the impression this was suggested due to his Naval background.

Edited by SecretAgent007, 09 September 2011 - 03:28 PM.

[David_M]

If it's like most weekends, he joins in a "Magic The Gathering" tournament at his local comic book shop.