How about…

Get some normal heat shrink tube and cut a length about twice as long as you need

Slide the tube onto the handle of a wooden spoon (or similar)

Use a sharp blade/stanley knife to cut a spiral along the complete length of the tube

Compress the resulting spiral (like a spring) so that you have an overlap for the tape to bond to itself

Apply heat…

It’ll either work a treat or fail spectacularly but if it’s the first, file a patent and then sell it to multinational tape corp inc…

At the risk of stating the obvious, surely “spiral tape” is just straight tape wrapped into a spiral?  (Like bar tape)

Heat shrink tape exists, but it seems expensive compared to normal self-amalgamating tape…

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heat-Shrink-Tape-50mtr-Length/dp/B09TWCZMHP/ref=sr_1_5?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ZZ1SRVyxAVKvaIPPSoRi29wwnSuorMS7REn7tJwJBVbXdWNrhcjsQ3IH3B2wDC9PrERKKYaZWNXyGGae2B0Pgr2svAC3xXBEYBllPo8yvO1BJZ9ioql_w_tDwcGEcZJIdTClVwXYrDk3O3OJA-JsPMoYe8U2eKyiroB4YpjtfD2GAGKHMGWKbk4zMqs9eXEYvauexROMqFWnz9L89UJcu_K9thbgkbss07WvkI8pK-1t6EVpm9cmWOrO7f9TRncBBmHlz-sIBLhmMdfzw1Cqk6WxosN8efBcNh4wVWqVd8A.79CoSzAbladFcMSbYMT4mM7pAoOH_9CerhcsrA-3gP0&dib_tag=se&keywords=heat%2Bshrink%2Btape&qid=1727546504&sr=8-5&th=1

As you say, all kids are different but we took our two camping for the first time when they were two and a half and four and a half.
First night we made the mistake of trying to get them down at their “normal” bedtime and it didn’t go well.  Second night, we let them run themselves into the ground playing with other kids they had met on the site until they crashed out and slept like logs…

I find the “big stuff” in some respects, is easier to manage than all the little stuff…

Of all the things I’ve tried for the smaller/miscellaneous tasks I find outlook the easiest, mainly because it’s something I’m using every day anyway so doesn’t take much extra discipline

You can drag and drop mails into your calendar, colour-code them for various categories and mark yourself as available/unavailable as required.

A:  Someone sends me a mail asking for something that I know is likely to take an hour to do, but isn’t needed until next week – I drag the mail to my calendar, categorise it as “to do” (I sometime add a few notes) but mark my time as “free/available” in case someone wants to schedule a meeting.

B:  I send someone a mail asking for something…  I drag the mail from my sent items folder, drop it into my calendar a few days hence but colour code it as “follow up” so that I get a reminder to give them a nudge if they haven’t responded…

C:  I also create appointments directly if I know that I need to blank out a chunk of time for something – If it’s an appointment in Outlook, Teams automatically shows you as “in a meeting” so it reduces the number of interruptions

Things inevitably get moved out or take longer than expected but I just shuffle them around and use the outlook calendar to plan my time – Things don’t get forgotten about, but I find that I can put them out of mind once they’re scheduled and I also get a good idea when I’m hitting capacity…

Thanks again frogstomp – The one you linked wasn’t compatible with my device but I found this one that seems to do exactly what I was looking for 🙂

https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/ce2cb5dc-7625-4dc1-853a-71af85b7b1e3

(It’s even called, “back to start”)

Thanks!  Looks interesting but Sod’s Law, the Garmin server isn’t responding so I’ll try again tomorrow!

At the risk of derailing the thread, do any of the bike GPS units have a feature which shows a simple pointer (compass heading) back to where you started?

I like messing about up at Cannock Chase, heading off down the seemingly endless supply of off-piste trails until I’m lost…  Not truly lost of course (the chase isn’t that big) but when the time comes to head home, my Garmin (Explore 2) has either the option to retrace the whole route, or it can try to plot a new route back (but will only plan a route via roads and won’t even create a route if you’re “off road” at the time)

All I really want is a rough direction of travel until I pick up some landmarks that I recognise…

I’ve heard (but have no evidence to back this up) that alloy wheel thefts fell as they became standard on all cars, but then started to rise again as leasing became popular – Apparently, there’s a market for fairly mundane alloys if they’re cheaper than the fees incurred when handing back a lease car with kerbed wheels…

I have the MT500 gloves – I’m really pleased with them but to the OP, you’re right in that they definitely aren’t gorse proof…

I created a kind of ground anchor in my shed by passing a chain through a hole in the floor and out to the side, then into a (very) large plant pot.  A few old padlocks/bits of metal on the end of the chain and then I filled the pot with hardcore and concrete…

I sold my last car to Arnold Clark – Same process as WBAC so they buy directly rather than the dealer auction thing that Motorway do but they offered a chunk more than WBAC and actually upped their offer when I took the car in rather than chipping it because they noticed it had an option pack that I’d neglected to mention…

I had a Caravelle (excellent for your use case by the way).  I think you’re right about the “cool factor/scene tax” but the only reliability issue I had that wouldn’t have applied to a Transporter was that the electric powered side doors could be a bit temperamental

I have a Buzzrack Scorpion (which is an excellent rack) and it tilts back until the bike is nearly horizontal – It’s a pretty common rack and there are a fair few images online showing it tilted when fitted to a range of cars.  My dog (Retriever) can be persuaded to jump in with the bike dropped out of the way but I have an SUV with a fairly big boot opening.  If I was doing this regularly (or with a Focus estate) I might be tempted to look at one of those folding ramps you can get for older dogs, assuming that it would fit in at a slight angle…

I moved from Leamington to Lichfield – Direct train to Birmingham (it’s a stopper so takes about 40 minutes).

I can cycle to Cannock chase in about half an hour down country lanes but to be honest, I normally drive (20 minutes) because I prefer the side further away…

Leftfield suggestion, but for lightweight and non-waterproof with a thin sole how about driving/race boots?

or something like…  https://www.alpinetrek.co.uk/altra-trail-gaiter-gaiters/?aid=eca520b76fb87e4e3eea8097db97c772&pid=10004&wt_mc=uk.pla.google_uk.18006637156..&wt_cc1=&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD2IVNmyOIVw7-Kw8pkCsRXqLrh4k&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhaXmm9bAhwMVLptQBh1yOwOpEAQYCSABEgKxA_D_BwE

Don’t forget fox poo, photo finish with dog must push sheep into third?

I bought one of these in the Wiggle/CRC sale and was so pleased with it, I bought another one in a different colour

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