Single parents in Surrey

Surrey is commuter country — Guildford, Woking, Epsom, Kingston, and trains into Waterloo doing most of the connecting. Parents here are often time-poor rather than distance-poor: the drive is twenty minutes, but the evening is already spoken for. Sunday mornings do more work here than Friday nights.

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.