2012 was an excellent year for me for a number of reasons. I want to tell a story about that summer, one that I probably wouldn’t have shared other than for the prompt for this month’s competition.
I live in the UK and (arguably) the most notable thing to happen in the UK in 2012 was the London Olympics. Summers were a particularly good time for me back then because I was working as a teacher and had a long (6 or 7) week holiday.
Being young and single with a little bit of money in my pocket, I tended to spend very little time at home during this extended period off work and would head off seeking adventure. An old friend from my own school days, Simon, was living in London at the time and we’d had a plan for a couple of years that I would come down to stay at his place and take in as many of the events as we could get to during the day and go out and have some fun each night.