Story Donated By Beate Rohle

I would like to introduce you to Matilde. Matilde is a flower-pot-duck, orange glazed pottery – quite useful if you like that sort of thing. She’s got proper eyes (like an old fashioned teddy bear) and lovely stripes.

My (then) best friend S. bought her at a flea market in Paris, back in 1994. We named her together and, for about a year, Matilde took a place of honour on the windowsill of the small flat we shared in Berlin.

I fell out with S. some time after Matilde and me moved to Leeds, and Matilde is getting rather dusty on a shelf in the kitchen – I could never part with my duck, though!

PS. Having written this, and having dusted off Matilde for the photograph, I think I might just find her a new place of honour!
Beate Rohle