Flower power
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Alan Wheatley, who communicates so amiably on behalf of National Carriers, blinked and rubbed his eyes. Well he might, for 7.30 am in Aberdeen Market is neither the time nor the place for one who has been gently reared.
But what taxed his credulity was the sight of a Freightliner container on a National Carriers semi-trailer parked on a double yellow line and decked out like the Chelsea Flower Show, the annexe to the florist's stall. All around it market tenants werel4ing out their wares.
The outfit was parked at the rear of VVoolworths, to which it was making a regular delivery. Woolworths did not begin to function until about 8am but by then the market was set up and impenetrable So the vehicle arrived at about 6.30am and the market was erected around it. Then it had to wait until late afternoon when the stall holders departed.
Which all goes to prove that they also serve who only stand and wait to escape.