Single parents in Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire is small and well-placed: Luton, Bedford, Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard, with fast trains to London and the M1 through the middle. Because it's compact, meeting someone from the other end of the county is a genuine twenty-five minutes rather than a project.

Everyone here is a parent, so the practical stuff — custody weeks, childcare, a reply that comes two days later because it was that kind of week — never needs explaining.