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MASTER OF DESTINY

“When we first moved in, we had the kids in one bedroom for a while. We had a bunk bed and a single bed in the master bedroom, and Boyd and I were in the other room. We did it tough

After spending the majority of her working life in offices, Helen Hopgood finally found a way to unleash her creative flair. And as the 66-year-old chats wearing what she calls her “daggy old Chanel glasses”, with her hair impeccably blowdried in a living room styled with gilded wood and eclectic furnishings, you can see that artistic glint in her eye.

“I always felt like a square peg in a round hole,” she says of her working life. “I’m artistic, and office life is so organised. If I could’ve chosen any career, it would’ve

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