Single parents in South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire is compact — Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley and Doncaster sit close enough that meeting someone from the next town is a twenty-minute decision, not an hour's one. Sheffield's edges run straight into the Peak District, and a fair number of first meets here are a walk rather than a drink.

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.