Itchenor Again

I really like Itchenor, it's a very picturesque little harbour village: one pub, one road leading down to the quay and the harbour master's house instead of a shop. In the summer it becomes very popular, it's the perfect place to launch from into the harbour and so of course everybody does. I don't mind this, my family are boaty people and in general boaty people get along with other boaty people no matter what the difference in boats may be. But this does mean that its easy to forget that this is a village in its own right, with people who live here all year round.  Visiting in that after Christmas slumber period completely reawakened me to see it this - only the fisherman were still out on the water and the church suddenly had context. I'd never really noticed the church as part of the village. I knew it was there, I passed it and I looked at it but I'd never been in and never really seen. The winter light was illuminating it in such a way that it did draw me in for a nose about and all of a sudden you could see that where the pub was the focal point of the village in the summer, at this time of year it was here.