My name is Geoff Le Pard. Once I was a lawyer; now I am a writer. I've published four books - Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle, My Father and Other Liars, Salisbury Square and Buster & Moo. In addition I have published three anthologies of short stories and a memoir of my mother. More will appear soon. I will try and continue to blog regularly at geofflepard.com about whatever takes my fancy. I hope it does yours too.
These are my thoughts and no one else is to blame. If you want to nab anything I post, please acknowledge where it came from.
Excellent post. Thanks, Geoff.
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Such an interesting post! I certainly learned something new today.
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He’s a mine of information.
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This is fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
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Happy New Year, Geoff! What an enlightening post. Marietta, Pennsylvania, near where I live, has the honor of being the first mass produced vaccine for smallpox. https://lifewithldub.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-what-ever-happened-to-vaccine-story.html
Also, does the whole family write or what?!
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Just us boys, though i do try and sell the idea to the kids, without success so far!!
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😂😂😂
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That was intriguing. My smallpox scar looks as though it came from being repeatedly poked with something. Perhaps it was.
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They are ugly beasts, like a small continent tattooed on the arm. Not that we cared much. Today imagine the moaning at unsightly scarring
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And we all had chicken pox scars despite the constant “don’t scratch that it will leave a scar.”
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