Single parents in Berkshire

Berkshire is Reading, Slough, Bracknell, Newbury and Windsor along the M4 and the Great Western line, and it is full of parents who commute. Time is the scarce thing here, not distance — the drive to the next town is fifteen minutes, but finding the evening to make it is the harder part.

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.