Thanks for coming.

I used to have something brilliant and witty to welcome readers with but I deleted it by accident and then lost the will to carry on.

Instead, you’ve got this.

Erm, hello.

You may know me from C4’s Paul Merton’s Secret Stations, the series inspired by my book Tiny Stations, or from BBC2’s Britain Goes Camping, or from my Guardian travel articles, or from my books. Or, of course, you might have come here because you misspelt the name of the Dixie Chicks and have no idea who I am (well done for reading this far though).

Whichever is the case, thank you for coming. You can hit the tabs above for info on three of my books. For the other 11 (or indeed, for those three except, I think, Tiny Stations), head over to my bookshop here.

And that’s about it, I suppose. Not much to show for a life at least half lived.

Play nicely.