YOUR YARNS
Whānau Time.
Embracing the Opportunity! By Sarah Visser
Goodbye Lincoln, goodbye social media, and goodbye bra! Hello Wellington, hello much missed family, and hello inner child! For me lockdown has been such a blessing. I know it has been really rough for a lot of you so I thought I’d share some of the fun things I’ve been doing with my family that I hope to inspire you with and bring you a smile during this unusual time. Right now, this is the most relaxed and creative I’ve felt this year, but leading up to lockdown, I admit, was a little stressful. Busy schedules full of meetings and events, almost too much of a great uni social life, which put a lot of pressure on getting the study mahi done. Then on the 23rd of March, when Jacinda announced level 4 lockdown would occur in the next 48 hours, I had only a matter of time to decide whether to leave my Lincoln life and much loved flatmates, or return home to family in Wellington. In the end I decided that this was the perfect opportunity to have quality time with my family while campus was closed and while they weren’t at school or working. So I rang Mum and the frantic search for a flight began! Tickets were disappearing like hot cakes before our eyes, so we prayed, cried and boohooed our eyes out together on the phone. Mum rang a travel agent and as they were talking there was 2 tickets from 20
Christchurch to Wellington left. A moment later there was 1 final ticket and Mum told the agent to book the golden ticket straight away and BOOM praise the good lord Jesus we got it! It was perfect timing, the last flight! Haha but yes, AirNZ later announced more flights for people, but still, it was our special moment, our mini miracle. The day before I left Lincoln, my flat mates Ashli, Bella, J-Lo and I visited Ali Stoddart’s farm and it melted my heart to see and pat all the moomoos! Ali gave us the grand tour followed by hot drinks and delicious homemade honey bread! It was soooo good and simple that we asked for the recipe. Ali has very kindly agreed to share it with you all as well. Honey Bread 1 ½ cups warm water 1 tbsp honey 1 tbsp active dry yeast 1 ½ tsp salt 4 cups of flour Mix water honey and yeast and let it sit until it foams for 5+min. Then add the salt and flour and mix until dough forms. Shape into a loaf and let it rise for 20min and then bake it for 25min at 200C.
