Hooke's Law

The end of February is the best of seasons. We have had the cold and now the ground is waterlogged. But this is the time of year when it is easiest to get up at dawn.
Yesterday the family dedicated a bench to someone who died twenty-five years ago. The bench is at Willen Church in Milton Keynes, designed in the 17th century by Robert Hooke, whose Law in physics is about capacity to bounce back from stress – not a bad Law.