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Make a decision. A birthday is coming up and they don’t want stuff. They want to feel like the world is heading in a better direction than the previous year. A donation to a noble cause seems fitting. You regularly rotate between charities. Pick one that best fits the birthday boy.

Get your bike really dirty. Do it in a day. Ride on dirt tracks. Ride in the rain. Stack it on gravel. Get up. Dust yourself off. Ride through puddles. Be the kid in gumboots jumping in mud. Small pleasures.

Find the form. It claims to take 15 minutes. Maybe for one of those wheres-my-passport people, but you’re extremely organised and you know how to design and build forms, let alone fill one out. You can beat the odds.

Admire the packaging. You didn’t go through a whole zero waste phase for nothing. The Australiana-themed Salvos wrapping paper has a likeness to the gift itself.