The Batmobile and Batman are fictious - or are they?

After a tiring day out at the Natural History Museum in London, we were getting back into our car, when across the road we spotted this strange shape underneath a grey cover - obviously it was a car but a very strange shape car.  My husband told me it was the batmobile.  Now I knew he had completely lost the plot.  Didn't he know that Batman was a cartoon character and was  fictious.  He insisted that it was the Batmobile.

He was so convinced that I told him to go across the road and ask the guy who was loitering around to take the covers off and let us see it.  After a few minutes and a little more persuasion, well alot of persuasion like "go on, go and ask that guy, or are you too scared?" to my surprise and amazement, off he went and actually got the guy to take the cover off the car and let us take photos.

It was the Batmobile. 

After the covers came off the traffic slowed down and everyone was rubber necking to see this car.  It was incredible to see the fuss it caused.  One man on his push bike almost became a cropper and luckily there was nothing coming the other way otherwise he would have been off to the casualty department.

The car had been hired for a music video shoot and that is all the information I could get out of the guy who was minding it.  We waited around hoping to find out more and enjoying all the chaos that was being caused.  Taxi's were hooting as motorists were stopping to see what was going on and loads of passers by were getting out their mobiles and taking photos.

Then the guy got into the car and started it up and a flash of lightning came from under the bonnet as he revved it up.  The excitement of the crowd was unbelievable as the roar of the engine filled the air.  


As he drove down the road and out of sight we never found out who had hired the car for their shoot, but lookout for it and remember,  you heard it here first!

See my YouTube video 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cFVovP63io 







 

Work from Home

Work from home, what a great idea.  Or was I wrong?

My life has drastically changed over the last ten years.  In 2000 I was a young newly wed with a house, mortgage and job.  Now its 2010 and I have two gorgeous daughters, a husband who has ME and is unable to work, a larger mortgage, more debts and I have lost my job.

As I enter the workplace after over 20 years of working at one job, it is not as easy as it used to be.  It is very daunting at 42 years old to be facing the 9-5 rush, going up against 20 somethings in a search to better myself.  I havent worked in an office environment since I was 21.  Scary !!

Instead of having to go out to work perhaps it would be better if I worked from home.  It seems to be all the rage on the internet.  Work the hours you want, earn £xxxx by working .... hours per day, wow that sounds good and I can do that.  Except when you look a little closer into these great jobs there seems to be lots of promises in pages of text and then there is the price.

Why do I have to pay to find out more?  I need to know what I am getting myself into before I make any sort of commitment to anyone.  Whoever heard of having to pay for a job.  When you hit the little cross on the tab at the top of the page - a message comes up saying "Wait - we can offer you a special offer and only pay £xxx if you stay on this page and accept now" or a box comes up with an agent who is online right now to change your mind ....  Oh the offer sounds so tempting.  Wow just for me you would do that.  How nice, I must get my credit card out right now - or not !

Yes you guessed it.  I have been sucked into these before.  Thinking that perhaps this is the golden opportunity that is right for me.

So I pay my money and wait for the email to arrive.  Excitedly I open my emails and read, click on the link only to find out that there isnt really anything new, its a scam and if I just post messages (like the one that enticed me) and get suckers (like me) to be stupid enough to part with their money then that would be how I get rich. 

It sounds tempting, or does it?  I dont really need to put any thought into it, I really couldnt sleep if I posted these things on the internet and lay in wait for some unsuspecting victim to part with their money. 

Oh well, maybe I will just have to keep searching for the perfect job that fits my lifestyle and keep my fingers crossed that I will find something that works for me, that doesnt involve scamming people out of their hard earned cash - does it really exist?