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July14
James
At Home
Photographs by Michael Bernabe
At the Upper Thomson home
that JAMES WALTON shares
with numerous birds and a
couple of dogs and cats, he
talked to Verne Maree about
running, soccer and the annual
Deloitte soccer tournament in
Prague.
That young African Grey has a
surprisingly menacing squawk.
Have you always loved birds?
He’s a bit wary of strangers. And yes, I’ve
always loved birds, but I haven’t always
had the space to keep and breed them.
There are three generations of love-birds
in these cages, and I’m rearing several
fourth-generation baby love-birds in the
house at the moment.
How do you keep your cats
away from the cages?
Easy – Ally and Tigger aren’t allowed
outside!
Why this house?
It was a lucky mistake, to be honest. When
the agent brought me here inmy first week
I had no concept of the geography of the
island; I didn’t realise quite how long it
would take on public transport to get to
my office in Tanjong Pagar.
But I like the area now, and everything
is relatively close and interconnected,
Walton