Posted by Ian E-N on January 24, 2007 at 22:39:33 from 86.130.85.151 user IanEN.
In Reply to: Re: Hot-pot incident (was FRAM Stove - what happened to the ashes? posted by Laurence Monkhouse on January 24, 2007 at 22:22:57:
But an alternative scenario might be that while the bright young things were enjoying themselves on the ice the older generation - who maybe didn't even like skating - produced the hotpot and sent it down to the ice, carried by one of themselves.
that's where I would have used ( would have expected to be used ) "brought down"
where a shore party carried the food and met the sailing party for lunch on a distant shore.
sounds lovely - scavenging groups sent on ahead