You can always look out for a cheap telescopic walking pole to use with these too, I tend to do that for lightweight touring, and they have a thousand other uses too.
Last night I thought I'd try setting up my tarp using some of the many old collapsable aluminium tent poles I've got. I made up a hoop long enough to go across the diagonal and then just poked into the ground at each end.
With a bit of experimenting with pegs, string etc I ended up with quite a decent low shelter certainly big enough for a couple to sit under and cook/eat/repair tyres/read/etc. and it seems to be reasonably stable, it's certainly still up this morning.
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