Robert Bannister wrote:
Peter H.M. Brooks wrote:

I think that the heat moves things out a bit at mid-day and the cool
of the
evening moves them back a little.


Not just weather - life style. In most of the famous Russian novels, the
aristocracy have breakfast (zavtrak) around noon, a meal whose name I
have forgotten in the early evening, dinner (obyed) towards midnight and
supper in the small hours of the morning.


In "Buddenbrooks", by Thomas Mann, which I read in English, the family
always ate "first breakfast', and then another breakfast later in the
morning. I don't know what term was used in the original though.

Fran