WHEN LINDA CHRISTALL FIRST laid eyes on her home, it was standing in a removal house yard, covered in mould and dirt. To anyone else, the tired timber bungalow might have looked like too much hard work, but to Linda, it presented an exciting opportunity.
A few years earlier, Linda had walked away from her marriage, her business and her comfortable life, driven by an unshakeable urge to build a future of her own making. “By the time I was 17 I had a child, so I really didn’t get to live my teenage years the way I should have,” Linda, 57, explains. “I don’t have
