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My book, LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK, is out today!
James
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James
@james_j_bailey
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Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
- Today marks 3 years since I sold my red fridge on Gumtree, under the listing ‘RED FRIDGE’. When the buyer arrived, he asked for £50 off because he “didn’t know it’d be red”. Here’s the picture I used for the ad.
- why does Pope Francis look like he’s slaying the comedy roast on Drag Race
- My mum, during the final twenty minutes of The Substance: “I wouldn’t like that to happen to me, James”
- I went to Madrid to see Isabel Quintanilla’s painting of her bathroom shelves, and now I’m showing you Isabel Quintanilla’s painting of her bathroom shelves.
- Please help me, I went out for some milk and am now in grave danger of purchasing a second-hand toucan lamp
- There’s a bush in our garden that spends 11 months of the year being extremely drab and insular, but pops up in May wearing an enormous purple feather boa. We call him Clive, but we haven’t really asked ourselves why.
- ‘Believe’ by Cher was number one in the UK for five days longer than Liz Truss was Prime Minister
- When I’m struggling to write, I often go back to this David Lynch quote. ‘I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath’
- Replying to @james_j_bailey(I’d moved house to somewhere that already had a fridge, which is why the red fridge is pictured standing outside in a vaguely menacing fashion)
- 25-30 is such a weird age group. You suddenly find yourself being referred to as an ‘Over’, and have to audition for the live finals at Louis Walsh’s house in Dublin, while the other groups get to go to LA and Saint-Tropez.25-30 is such a weird age group. You have to excel in your career, find a life partner, stay healthy and save money.
- Me when I can’t get the hoover to workLana Del Rey shares possible cover for her upcoming song ‘Henry, Come On.’
- Sinéad O'Connor was brilliant, smart and courageous as fuck. I hope she’s remembered for her sense of humour, too. Here she is attending an anti-Sinéad O'Connor demonstration in disguise. Truly one of a kind 🖤
