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Do you mean the ones that have a point on the end - you can use them to hold up one of the door flaps to provide a bit of shelter/shade.... you just need to tie two guy ropes onto the holes at the bottom of the door flap. We did that the first day we arrived as it was quite windy and we didn't want to put up the canopy. (On our old tent we used to swap it around different doors depending on where the rain/sun was).

With your porch canopy poles of that length - do they dig into the tent side? I haven't measured mine yet but I will compare it to yours and see.

Thanks for the info about the pointy poles.  We were going to buy the canopy but will ty this method first, may save us a bob or two.  Our bendy pole didn't dig into the side of the tent, not that we noticed, anyway. 

PS sorry dustyboy for hijacking your topic.

Just to say that I have finally measured my porch pole and it is 59 cm for the long poles and 54 for the one shorter pole.

So mine could be 9 cm approximately longer than your pole. Now to chop the pole or to go back to the shop and see what they say?