"A naturalist of very fixed habits followed the sun around his house." "Soon after dawn, he sat at breakfast with his family on the porch that faced due east." "At 1 1 o'clock, he joined his family for a cup of coffee on the veranda that faced the sun towards the southeast." "At lunchtime, he ate on the terrace with his family overlooking the garden to the south." "At about seven o'clock, the naturalist dined with this family in the conservatory that faced the sunset, and as soon as it was dark, the naturalist went to bed." "When the world began to spin anticlockwise, the naturalist couldn't change his habits and he spent the day alone living in the shadow of his house and never met, sat or ate with his family again." " H is for..." " House." "H is for heel, hip, heart, ham, haunch, hair and head." " R is for..." " Robin." "The robin is an abundant and widespread resident." "H is for hawk, hoopoe, hawfinch, heron, harrier." " A is for..." " Apple." " B is for..." " Butterfly." "H is for house sparrow, hedge sparrow." "H is for hen." " C is for..." " Cat." "H is for hedge, hedgehog, horsetail, hawthorn, heather, hemlock, holly, hellebore and hazel." " H is for..." " Hat." "White hat." "H is for haberdashery, hunting, halving, halfling, hog, horse and hiccup." "W is for..." "The wren has a loud dramatic song with high-pitched phrases and trills." "H is for house sparrow, hedge sparrow." "H is for holiday." "H is for hero." "H is for Harris." "H is for home movie and Hollywood." "And R is for russets." "G is for Granny Smiths." "C is for Cox's Orange Pippins." "H is for harvest." "The carrion crow is a widespread and sometimes common bird." "H is for harpsichord." "H is for health and happiness, hearse, hepatitis, heretic, heaven, hell, horror, holocaust and His Holiness." "H is for hero and heroine." "H is for homily." "H is for hysteria." "H is for hapax legomenon." "H is for hose pipe." "H is for hammock." "H is for hopelessness, happiness, homelessness, hesitation." " B is for..." " Blackberries. I like those ones." " C is for..." " Cows." "H is for heifer." " B is for..." " Bike." "H is for horse." " M is for..." " Music." "H is for hocus-pocus, helter-skelter, harum-scarum, hoity-toity, hokey cokey, hotchpotch, hubble-bubble, hugger-mugger, hurdy-gurdy..." " T is for..." " Table." "H is for horsepower." "H is for Hemiptera, Homoptera and Hymenoptera." "H is for hookworm, hornet and hover fly." "H is for haberdashery." "H is for hump." "H is for hacienda." "H is for having." "H is for hiatus." "H is for hungry." "H is for horology." "H is for hybrid." "H is for haplography." "H is for cigars, Havana cigars." " L is for..." " Ladder." "H is for hermaphroditism, hibernation, holozoic." "H is for haemophilia, haemorrhage, hemisphere, habilitate." "H is for habits." "H is for hack, hew, hatchet, hammer and Hitchcock." "H is for handicap, handicraft, handiwork, handkerchief and handle." " H is for..." " House." "S is for sun." "H is for heliolithic, heliotrope, heliosis, helium and helix." "H is for homburg." "H is for Hoover and honey." " S is for..." " Sunny." "H is for half past six, half past seven, half past eight, half past nine, half past ten, half past 1 1 , half past 1 2..." "H is for hose pipe and H2O." "..half past two, half past three, half past four, half past five, half past six." "H is for house sparrow." "House sparrows are abundant and the tree sparrow is common in many places where it often has small colonies." " P is for..." " Potato." "H is for bean, haricot bean and has-been." "Rooks may often breed in small copses and along the edges of woods." "A woman who lived in the country watched and waited for the approach of the city." "She was convinced it would come from the north and only in the afternoon." "So, she scanned the northern horizon through binoculars until teatime." "H is for horizon." "Her expectations and her anxieties, however fearful, always ceased abruptly and absolutely at four o'clock." "The speculators grew wise, and parked their lorries east of her property and unloaded their bricks and their timber on the western and southern sides of her garden whilst she was pouring tea." "When the city was built in the woods and fields around the woman's house, the town planners had left the woman an open corridor to the north." "But at four o'clock every afternoon, they confidently filled that corridor in with temporary buildings and disposable traffic." "H is for halo, halation, helix, halcyon, heliotrope, heliosis, helium and helix." "H is for heliolithic." "A man believed that the human eye was like some sort of battery that the sun alone could recharge." "Avoiding the dangerous glare of the day, he took to watching summer sunsets in the hope that his sight would thus be much improved for the winter." "He persuaded his friends to watch with him and soon, in various parts of the country, groups of people sat out of doors in the evening looking westward." "Before very long, rival societies sprang up to watch the dawn." "Sun-watching to recharge sight became endemic." "Controversy arose." "The rift between those who looked east in the morning and those who looked west in the evening led to argument and abuse and ultimately to blows." "Cynical observers began to look west in the morning and east in the evening, and a group of satirical opticians began to look north and south in the middle of the night." "H is for house." " D is for..." " lt's all dark outside." "Go to bed."