Well, his Mum went all clingy on him after the divorce to the point where he couldn't stand it and so he left home to try and get by on his own at about 16 - I think he meets Hetty when he is 17. He is barely scraping by at the bedsit, working his job at the shop (market or supermarket is not the right word in the UK) hence his trying for a little extra when he tries to steal the Children's Aide money from Hetty's shop. Post Offices, where Hetty was working, are typically in a sealed-off corner of a neighbourhood shop.
In the UK if you aren't going on to Uni because of grades or whatever, it's fine to leave school at 16 and get a job.
He's fairly street savvy while still being an innocent himself. For example, he would likely know where to go to score drugs, but wouldn't do them himself.
No relatives that I remember - maybe a mention of a cousin once, but I'm not sure about that. Dad is totally disappeared, and while Robert makes Geoff promise that he will visit his Mum more I don't think that we ever hear of her again after the day she shows up on their doorstep. Hetty and Robert truly become his parents. Their own son Derek and his wife and kids live in Australia and she and Hetty don't particularly get on and she always gets in the way of any meetings. Geoff fills a void for Hetty, as well as being her assistant. She is excited about him being her assistant because it makes him think, and he is gaining self confidence.
In almost every episode, Geoff has "a friend he knew at school" that knows about a subject or might have info they need and he digs them up. It's a running joke.
After they buy the scooter it's also a joke for Geoff to insist that the Agency needs a car, because of course he intends to be the driver. Every teenage lad needs a car.
After he moves in he does nearly all the cooking, and he has the cutest way of holding his fork! It makes you think of curling his hand up when Treebeard lays him down in the forest, sort of little laddish : )
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Date: 2004-08-15 01:51 pm (UTC)In the UK if you aren't going on to Uni because of grades or whatever, it's fine to leave school at 16 and get a job.
He's fairly street savvy while still being an innocent himself. For example, he would likely know where to go to score drugs, but wouldn't do them himself.
No relatives that I remember - maybe a mention of a cousin once, but I'm not sure about that. Dad is totally disappeared, and while Robert makes Geoff promise that he will visit his Mum more I don't think that we ever hear of her again after the day she shows up on their doorstep. Hetty and Robert truly become his parents. Their own son Derek and his wife and kids live in Australia and she and Hetty don't particularly get on and she always gets in the way of any meetings. Geoff fills a void for Hetty, as well as being her assistant. She is excited about him being her assistant because it makes him think, and he is gaining self confidence.
In almost every episode, Geoff has "a friend he knew at school" that knows about a subject or might have info they need and he digs them up. It's a running joke.
After they buy the scooter it's also a joke for Geoff to insist that the Agency needs a car, because of course he intends to be the driver. Every teenage lad needs a car.
After he moves in he does nearly all the cooking, and he has the cutest way of holding his fork! It makes you think of curling his hand up when Treebeard lays him down in the forest, sort of little laddish : )
Is that enough to start with?