shiny new things . . pesto, weekend cycle/river cleanups, google's Flutter and Dash

So yesterday, Thursday I was wished fun/good luck on my holidays in 2 meetings.
And we were planning some weekend activity.
And we looked at Kate's rear wheel on bike - quite a movement in it - took apart hub - cup & cone hub. Cleaned out some dirt, packed with grease. And now there is no play in the wheel. Wow. Maybe more grease did it. maybe it is on tighter. Maybe too tight . . :-o hope not.
So when I woke up . . .I thought it was Sat, not Friday.
I realised . . when I saw Daire on the google maps at work . . oops, it's Friday!


Work stuff.


Later . . .

Green pesto is just smashed up green stuff e.g. wild garlic, dandelion, nettle leaves! right? With nuts and parmesian. Red pesto is just smashed up red stuff (i.e. tomatos, usually sun-dried, maybe chilli). Great opportunity for a bit of foraging in cupboards and garden followed by chopping, smashing and grating!
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/wild-pestohttps://smarterfitter.com/wild-garlic-pesto-recipes/
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/wild-pesto
https://pastaevangelists.com/blogs/blog/red-pesto-sauce-recipe


Flutter and Dart for Android and other OSs 
https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/08/flutter_for_linux_desktop_apps/

 https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/06/google_flutter_117_dart_28/ ehhhh
https://flutter.dev/
Oh cool. Frontpage "Try Flutter" Script editor and Run.
https://flutter.dev/docs/codelabs
https://twitter.com/FlutterDev

https://flutter.dev/desktop
sudo snap install flutter --classic

https://developer.android.com/studio/install


Weekend plans . . . 

https://my.viewranger.com/route/details/MzE4NzU2NQ==
Sandyford to Leixlip cycle route rivers/canals
 
via Ballyboden, Scholarstown, Firhouse . .
over Whitestown Stream Tallaght
via  Cheeverstown Road, Kingswood, Baldonnel
via short bit on Grand Canal cycleway to the 12th lock
via Lucan and St Catherine's Park to Leixlip

Home via another short canal cycleway . . . the Royal canal this time  . .
Beside the river Liffey to Chapelizod and Islandbridge
Up through Kilmainham to the Grand Canal
Follow the grand canal to Harold's cross then South to Terenure
River Dodder
Churchtown
Dundrum
Sandyford

or
https://my.viewranger.com/route/details/MzE4NzczOQ==
Same route except 
via Hayden's Lane and Griffeen valley park skipping Lucan

https://www.facebook.com/events/662229781031927/
SATURDAY, JULY 18, 2020 AT 10 AM – 12 PM
Whitestown Stream Community Cleanup
start @ Tallaght Leisure Centre

https://www.echo.ie/tallaght/article/dodder-action-volunteers-needed-to-help-re-wild-whitestown-stream

https://dublingazette.com/news/dodder-cleanup-43532/

https://www.facebook.com/events/3020530821395211/

There is a cleanup of Dodder River at The Balrothery Weir (Morton's Firhouse) and the areas around it this coming Sunday July 12th from 10-12 noon.

We will miss the festival of Curiosity next weekend . . or will we . . it's online.
https://festivalofcuriosity.ie/
https://festivalofcuriosity.ie/programme/
https://www.facebook.com/events/1127872574241989/


earlier this week . . . 

didn't meet up with Scouts as weather was wet wet and we are missing a good few on holidays

https://gis.epa.ie/EPAMaps/ rivers and streams maps overlay layers.

brush up on your Water Safety for the holiday season. https://watersafety.ie/recreation/ and do a virtual explore of the streams in our area (or anywhere in Ireland using this online map:  https://gis.epa.ie/EPAMaps/ Use layers menu tool on left and turn on "River Network" and Streams.

https://www.scouts.ie/Covid-19/Scouting-Good-News/
https://www.scouts.ie/Covid-19/Advice/Getting-Back-to-Scouting-Roadmap.pdf (catch up on updates)
NYCI course & survey
https://www.youth.ie/articles/how-can-the-youth-work-sector-respond-to-young-peoples-calls-to-tackle-racism
https://www.youth.ie/event/youth-climate-justice-manifesto-launch/
https://www.youth.ie/event/intro-to-global-youth-work-and-development-education-thursday-23rd-of-july
https://www.youth.ie/event/action-youth-work-the-sdgs-20th-of-august


http://www.clarewatersafety.com/site_pages.php?section=Clare+Water+Safety&category=Water+Safety+News
https://watersafety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/PAWS-4-Presentation.pdf
https://www.healthychildren.org/English/safety-prevention/at-play/Pages/Water-Safety-for-Older-Children.aspx



https://www.catchments.ie/dun-laoghaire-biodiversity-action-apple-trees-local-bees/

Fitsimons wood and Kilcross