No use crying over spilt paint

The building site across the road from the KE offices has come up with another lookalikey for us.

Back in the winter we highlighted how we thought the huge demolition machine that was used to bring down Ashdown Court in North Street was a dead ringer for a giant dinosaur. Now the contractors are at it again.

An imaginative member of the Nuts and Bolts team (very imaginative) reckons the giant crane being used to create the new Bakers Court building going up on the construction site looks like the logo used in advert breaks on Channel 4 (which are called ‘idents’, we now understand).

You make your own mind up by comparing these two photographs.

If you have any lookalikeys, please email the details to kentishexpress@thekmgroup. co.uk

KE reporter Sam Williams is regretting the day she decided to become a boot fair seller. She had a good sort-out of unwanted bits and bobs, and then her dad (a painter and decorator) asked her if she could sell two large and unwanted part-used cans of emulsion paint.

So she put the bulk of her materials to sell on the back seat of her car and the two tins of paint in the boot.

Yes, you’ve guessed it: when she arrived at the boot fair venue, the boot of her car was awash with emulsion after the cans rolled over, lids came off and paint spilled everywhere.

She courageously carried on with the boot fair while her dad drove the emulsion laden car home for her.

Later that day, the two spent three hours cleaning out the paint as best they could, although the boot’s carpet lining had to be chucked.

And to rub salt into her wounds, by the time she’d paid her boot fair pitch fee all she actually made at the event was £16 (stop laughing – it isn’t funny).

Since then, poor Sam has been the butt of a few paint-related jokes.

For example: Do you keep a coat in the boot of your car? Do you know anyone with a ‘matt’ in the boot of their car? You ever thought of changing your car for a Roller?

And to top it all she was then asked to write a story about a dog from Charing who’d been appearing in Dulux adverts.

Picture: Alastair Irvine FM3373721 Are the contractors at the Bakers Court building site moonlighting at the Channel 4 publicity department? And a boot fair accident with some paint made KE reporter Sam Williams wish she had kept to the day job