Oysters

Over the past forty years I must have eaten well over one thousand oysters, either with French friends at their homes, or in restaurants. But until yesterday I had never bought an oyster and carried it home to eat. I had an oyster-opening set (Laguiole) that I bought optimistically many years ago, but never an oyster. One of my local supermarkets  -- Morrison's --  introduced an Anglo-Irish oyster special offer (oysters are still pretty rare in English supermarkets). I bought a dozen and carried them home in triumph. They have now been opened and eaten. Delicious. No stopping me now (as long as I can find the oysters for sale).