/authors/the-essex-master/Recent content in The Essex Master on Gromet's Plaza ArchiveHugoen-usSun, 02 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2011/10/02/one-weekend-in-charlottes-life/Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2011/10/02/one-weekend-in-charlottes-life/<p>As I left the motorway, I rang ahead with my instructions for the coming weekend. It had been a long Friday night, the normal drive is 2 hours, but tonight it had rained so hard that the drive took 3 ¾ hours. I turned off towards the dominating huge castle looming on the skyline in the now clearing night sky. I was waiting at the traffic lights when she answered her phone. Her instructions were going to be easy tonight as I was very tired after a long hard day at work then the long tiring drive in the torrential rain.</p>