Can you keep a home spotless with children in the house?
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Can you keep a home spotless with children in the house?

Beyond the usual eight to 10 hours when the children are firmly tucked away in bed, and you’ve slogged for a couple of hours to tidy up toys and scrub of strange things from surfaces, walls and tables that you can’t imagine the ingredients of, it is possible to keep your home clean with the kids around…if you have a plan!

20120416-162752.jpgHere are some tips to keep on top of the mess and stay sane:

1. Slog alone and tidy alone for life!

Mess in the home is not created by you alone, so it takes a joint effort to get things clean again.Get everyone involved in the housework from day one and you’ll start to cultivate a culture of cleanliness.

Everything from tidying up toys to sprucing up rugs with carpet cleaning shampoo can be done by children if you teach them. But if you want to play the martyr, you’ll be slogging for life, so start while they’re young and it will make cleaning seem effortless.

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How important is fast internet connections for mums?

The Suffolk County Council have promised their constituents faster broadband by the end of the year. The pledge was aimed at those who still rely on dial-up connections, most of whom reside in the rural parts of the county.
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But with Council leader Mark Bee claiming that in some cases the connection speeds were slower than a dire 60kbs, how important is fast broadband?

The average broadband speed of the Suffolk region is cited as 5Mbps. That’s 1.7Mbps slower than the British average. To put things into further context, the British average itself is 37th in the world broadband speed test!