Once again, thank you everyone. It is so comforting to find people willing to offer help like this.
I have now googled 'single caravanning' and yes, thanks, it did produce another, slightly different batch of info which I then happily hoovered up and stored. Well I think I stored, but at my age I'm not sure which mental shelf I popped it on. Only when I try to retrieve it will I know if it was successful.
The divorce process grinds slowly on. We're off to the financial Mediation tomorrow which, as my wife's pension is far greater than mine, will be an interesting process. The point of mediation is also to avoid BIG legal bills so, in time, we'll see if this is actually the outcome.
Until the process coughs up some dosh I can't buy/sort tow car or van but I'm trying to learn as much as poss in the mean time. My fear is that the money will not be available until deepest winter and I'm not sure I want to start this totally new life at the depth of the freeze. Better would be to have a go in the Autumn and then be better armed to weather the deepest winter. On that note, I've been told that many people now take their vans to Spain for the winter and only return in say March or April. That sounds like a plan to avoid my learning process being endured amongst snow and ice. Does anyone have any experience of the 'Spain for the winter' method of survival???