Trained half a century ago in musicology at Durham, and at Oxford in theology, Geoff worked first for fifteen years as an academic. For five years he flourished in an environment well-adapted to welcome him in both disciplines – a Nigerian university. But settling in 1967 in Australia – a land hard on tall poppies - he found himself an endangered species, amid academics with no space for his God-talk. He was helped to find his roots again in the fellowship of ANZAMRS - an Australasian academic association dedicated to mediaeval and renaissance studies. But his resurrection from the dead weight of his early intellectualism required substantial time-out: for ten years he found quiet sanctuary working in his university library as Rare Book Cataloguer. In 1988 Geoff emerged from seclusion to be reskilled for ministry in the area that has ever since been his focus: chaplaincy and pastoral care of persons with a psychiatric diagnosis. Alongside practical work he sustained a research interest in the philosophy of mental illness, now to be incorporated in a doctoral thesis he is currently completing in Ministry Studies. His thesis topic is: `On becoming more open to others in God’. Geoff, now in a second marriage, has two children and three grandchildren.