Oh, you mean a tent!

[Alan Stubbs]

A bivouac in Scouting terms means a shelter made from materials found in the local area, rather than taken with you.

 

In crude terms - it's an ad hoc shelter rather than something 'tailored', like a tent.

[Wordbender]

Peter Waller:

Errrrrr, some of 'em are permanant fixtures!! Like the one wot W.B. lives in

 

[Malcolm Johns]

"Shortened from Bivouac, which implies a more temporary stay than a tent".

 

Bloody 'ell, old Lord Baden Powell spent less time in a tent than some of the bivvy boy's do in their bivvies; or should that be 'bovver boy's?

[Elton]

You lot are just jealous because your FPO's won't let you out for more than 4 hours at a time

[awaaar]

"(Didn't see THAT coming on your fancy-pants, double-cheaty, George Foreman skill-reducing, electronic fish-finder-sonar-thingy, did yer?

Eh? Eh?)"

 

Quality - george foreman skill reducing!! LOL

 

"You lot are just jealous because your FPO's won't let you out for more than 4 hours at a time"

 

Think you've hit the nail on the head there Elton!

[Graham Elliott]

I understand where Peter is coming from.

 

Except how many people take their tent to the pitching site in a wheelbarrow?

 

And don't tent people have suitable furniture as standard rather than

Guest chairs, guest beds, guest radios etc.

 

Graham

[RUDD]

Elton:

You lot are just jealous because your FPO's won't let you out for more than 4 hours at a time

[Peter M]

What does FPO stand for????

[ayjay]

Take your pick

 

Fire Prevention Officer

Field Post Office

Fixed Penalty Office

Family Protection Unit

Fleet Post Office

First Patient Out

Further Professional Option

Floating Production & Offloading

Field Programme Officer

 

or probably none of those.

 

 

Came across some funny stuff when looking though.

 

NFN on Doctors notes = Normal for Norfolk

[Norfolkdan]

Oi