Week 79 in London

Week 79: 3 - 9 October 2016

On Tuesday night Roslyn enjoyed a very rare dining experience, attending a dinner event in Westminster Abbey.

Meanwhile, Brendan went out into the cold night air on a mission to stock up on our favourite yogurt, skyr. As we discovered back in Week 64, skyr is only available at certain Waitrose supermarkets and the nearest one to us is 2.5 kilometres away at Balham.  Brendan had already walked/jogged home the 4 kilometres from work to home, and then onwards to Balham expecting to stock up on skyr for the week ahead.

Disaster struck when he arrived and found only one lonely tub. Deciding that this was a good time to campaign Waitrose to bring skyr to our nearest shop, he took to Facebook to plead his case.

Despite Waitrose’s fairly generic response and lack of engagement in any banter, we both returned the following day and cleared the shelf of all 12 tubs of skyr.

When Brendan’s colleagues found out about the ordeal, dubbed “yogurt-gate”, they all became curious as to why the skyr was so sought after by us. He had to take a tub in to share with them so they’d really understand.

We spent Friday night packing up our small travel cases for the weekend away in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Highlights for the week:

- Roslyn had a dinner event at Westminster Abbey

- Brendan attempted to convince Waitrose to expand the availability of skyr

- Returned the next day to buy every skyr on the shelf
- Prepared for our trip away to Belfast