Austerity and other words

It's more than half way through 2012, so here are my top ten words of the year so far:

One year - still here

It’s a year since I started this blog. I began it to create a space to write again. At the time, I wrote that I wanted to "to explore how putting two disparate items together can lead to a pattern, a picture, perhaps even ... a story."

Little did I imagine that writing this blog would pave the way for real, distinct and positive changes in my life. What am I on about? Well, as a direct result of my blog, I have:

Literary birds: The Raven

Charles Dickens had a pet bird, a raven named Grip.