Single parents in Somerset

Somerset is small towns and long lanes — Taunton, Yeovil, Bridgwater, Frome, and Bath pulling from the north-east corner. The A303 and the M5 do most of the work. It's a county where people are relaxed about a forty-minute drive, partly because there isn't much choice.

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.