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Born in July of 1961 just outside of London, England.
Initially, went to school in London, then in 1969, my parents moved to a new built house, partway between the cities of Bath and Bristol in the south west of England, for me, as a child of 8 years of age, it was a huge change, gone were the concrete tower blocks, and in came the green fields and far open spaces.
There, I went to a school named after a man born in the village who went on to far greater things, I was lucky enough to meet him once when he came to the school to talk about his work. He was Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell, OBE, FRS, an English physicist and radio astronomer, and at the time of our (brief) crossing of paths, some time in the early 1970's, he was the first Director of the Jodrell Bank Observatory, in fact he was its Director from 1945 to 1980.
I was already an avid reader of science fiction books, anything and everything, I don't remember having a favourite author, and still don't, I just enjoy a good story. The television was also full of good things when I was growing up, Doctor Who was an amazing thing to watch, the special effects are perhaps laughable now, but at the time they were a wonder to behold, though occasionally you could see the strings attached and the tin foil and cardboard. I do remember seeing the grainy black and white images of the first moon landing in 1969, and watching it with my father, he wasn't interested in space and beyond, but he knew I was.
My father drove a truck for a living, and occasionally allowed me to drive it around the yard, I got reasonably good at reversing an articulated unit with a 40 foot trailer onto a loading bay by the time I was 14, I couldn't do it now! Sadly, my father passed away in 1988, just a few months before my brothers wedding, but he got to meet my two boys, and they remember him fondly, as do Caroline and I.
My brother and I grew up in a great household, like all brothers we had our ups and downs, but we survived it, and he is here in Spain too, a few hundred kilometers up the coast.
My Mother was an English teacher, with a proper University degree and everything, which is probably where my love of reading and writing comes from, thankfully, she didn't teach at my school, (awkward) but at a school nearer to Bristol. My Mother is here in Spain too, right next door to me, I am her cook, her chauffuer, her gardener, DIY man and dog walker, and I sort out all her IT problems, and in between, I find time to write, and occasionally, I get to talk to my wife.
So, I left school, went to college to follow my other passion, cooking, and on passing my catering exams I was recruited by the Ministry of Defence, and went to work for them for several years. It sounds like it could be dark and mysterious, and perhaps I should say that my work for them is covered by the Official Secrets Act, cloak and dagger stuff, but I can't, it wasn't. I worked as a civilian chef at a local Military base, but it had its moments, we were allowed on the odd training exercise here and there, got to use the gun range several times, and managed a parachute jump or three.
Whilst there, I had started writing for fun, around 1979 I began a story that eventually became Orbiter One, At Worlds End, the first book published in January 2020 at the ripe old age of 58. I also met Caroline, we married, and in time, the Children were born, we did family things, grew up together, and then, as families do, the kids moved out, they had their own lives to lead, and had their own paths to follow.
We had fun though, Phil introduced me to Warhammer 40,000, I showed him how to paint the models, he still builds them and paints them, and between us we make model scenery that we have sold online all over the world, as well as painting the model soldiers of the Warhammer world. That painting spilled over to digital art, and I built Phil his own PC to use for this digital work, and he dived headfirst into the software, finding all the trick bits that he could, and it was magical to see what he could produce without touching a physical paintbrush. Now, he does all types of painting, oils, acrylics, chalks and pastels, and the digital, and still paints the models, some with parts he builds from scratch, and model scenery, all made generally from scrap materials. That model painting was a blast from my past, my godfather worked for Airfix in London, my birthday and christmas presents were always plastic build your own model kits, and I painted them too. My bedroom ceiling at one point held around 70 model aircraft attached by fishing line and drawing pins, and there were model boats, tanks, cars and motorcycles on any shelf space not occupied by books.
The youngest, Paul, he was into all sorts of things, not all of them good, and he has a family of his own now, and we have two grandchildren, so he has done OK in the end.
One day, the three of us will perhaps get to ride out together, we all have motorcycles, mine, of course, is the biggest! The pair of them are on their sporty tin cans, I prefer something proper, an old V4 1100cc Honda Pan European named Rosie, exactly half my age, which the wife tells me, is often the way I ride it, still, when riding pillion, she does occasionally tell me to ride it like I stole it.
What's that, no Officer, speeding, 220kph? No, wouldn't dream of it, its a tourer, honest.
So, the kids leave home, we leave England, some years before, Caroline had suffered a lung injury whilst at work and this left her with breathing difficulties, and as we had visited my mother in Spain a few times by then, and found the drier air was better, we moved out of the UK and did our own Brexit long before the term was even invented.
We have been on the south coast of Spain, on and off, every since.
At the very begginning of our Spanish journey I discovered the old typed up notes from the book started way back in 1979, Orbiter One, that was 2005, and it has taken another 15 years to get it finished to a point where I became brave enough to actually publish it, the book has been ready for it since 2012, I wasn't.
We moved about a bit, hopped from one country to another on occasion, but we always seemed to be drawn back to Spain, and now, we have finally settled into a life here, and there is more time to write. We are now at house move number 5, this one, in part, to look after my aging mother (now well into her 80's, bless her) and this one is a change, no longer a town house or an apartment, we moved into a Finca, it is basically a 2,500sq meter orchard with a single storey house and a (most welcome) swimming pool, all not far from Malaga.
In between looking after the house and grounds, my mother, her two dogs, our cat, and Caroline, who to be fair, looks after herself and takes very good care of me too, I do get time to write more stories and the opportunity to release my scribblings to an unsuspecting world, with luck, others will enjoy reading them, there are more to come.
There you go, about the author!
All that is left to be said is, have a fun day, a good week, a great year, and a brilliant life, but just remember this,
what ever life throws at you, chuck it back, you probably don't need it.

Cliff - Servus Ad Artem.
Cliff Dale Books
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At Worlds End - Orbiter One
Silent Night - Orbiter One
Anecdotes of a Zero
Breaking News
The Genesis of Capsaa
Earning the Spurs
Queen of Hearts