The Geecologist

The Time of Our Singing

The Time of Our Singing

Jul 10, 2021 | Fiction | 0 comments

By the time the train reaches his destination, the child owns it. Charmed strangers wish him well when he gets off at a tiny Delta town called Money. He steps off the platform into a crowd of boys, his instant friends. He appears to them as another species, a creature...
A Short Walk In The Hindu Kush

A Short Walk In The Hindu Kush

Dec 26, 2016 | Non-Fiction, Travel | 0 comments

On the way back from ‘luncheon’, while Hyde-Clarke bought some Scotch ribs in a fashionable butcher’s shop, I went into the Post Office in Mount Street and sent a cable to Hugh Carless, a friend of mine at the British Embassy, Rio de Janeiro.

The History of Mr Polly

The History of Mr Polly

Feb 8, 2010 | Fiction | 0 comments

The essential thing of those fifteen long years of shopkeeping is Mr Polly, well athwart the counter of his rather ill-lit shop, lost in a book, or rousing himself with a sigh to attend to business. And meanwhile he got little exercise; indigestion grew with him until...