I am now officially on maternity leave, or as my workplace likes to put it, in my ‘confinement period’. I’m both amused and appalled by the term, as it feels a little archaic in this day and age. To me it conjures images of a woman in a 19th century white cotton nightgown, sitting up in a four poster bed, gazing out of a window and watching the world go by. In actual fact my leave so far has been anything but that…
Wattle and Ash 