The Sun Says..

That apparently Luton is cancelling Christmas.. We are, instead, having a festival called Luminos...

Yeah right.. will post something in a tick about the real Luton Christmas but cancelled.. NO WAY!!!

Bedfordshire Bond

So it turns out that all bets are off for actor Colin Salmon becoming the next James Bond. It seems that there have been so many big money sums placed on him taking the 007 role for Bond21 that Ladbrokes have stopped taking them.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4065229.stm

Interesting, the first Black bond; the first Bond to be played by an actor who has featured in the films already; the first Luton Bond... hang on a minute, the first Luton Bond?

Yes, Luton born and bred and chucked out of Luton VI form college to boot (a feat that even I didn't achieve with an average 58% lesson attendance). Add that to Luton composer David Arnold (who does the Bond music these days) and you've got a little Luton film revival going on.

Car share lane

This is a bit village voice but hey... they are going to turn the junction 7-10 stretch of the M1 into a car sharing lane experiment. The idea is basically that you get to use this lane if you have more than one person in the car.. In tehory it should encourage car pooling.

Why should I be excited? Just think it coudl be relationally really good for the town. I sometimes feel like my car is a confessional, that we as a generation get really real in our cars. With car pooling there will be more chances to talk and share and all that.

And it means there might be a few less cars on the road in town too..