who only by moving can balance

And then today's cookbook browsing introduced me to the concept of allorino! But the internet can't agree on whether it should be made with bay leaves, bay flowers, or bay berries. So clearly the correct solution here is Some Of Each, right.

(I am also contemplating whether I want to add finely chopped fresh bay to the quince buckwheat upside-down cake that is high on my priority list for things to cook over the next few days, given how much I love the Ottolenghi lemon & bay cake...)

Meanwhile, my other recreational reading today introduced me to the concept of the "Brompton Cocktail".

The Brompton Hospital in London, which treated large numbers of terminal cancer patients in the nineteenth century, developed a mixture of drugs which has come to be known as the 'Brompton Cocktail'. More officially, it was called 'mist euphorians': the euphoria-producing mixture. It contained honey, gin, cocaine and heroin with some flavouring. It was given to suffering patients in the terminal stages of painful cancer and, not surprisingly, they were considerably relieved of their miseries.

(The Challenge of Pain, Ronald Melzack & Patrick D. Wall)