Not if you happen to be a frog, anyway, after a nasty outbreak of "Spontaneous Pub Combustion".
+2013+oil+on+canvas+25+x+31cm.jpg "plein air oil painting of the \"Jolly Frog\" in Windsor by artist Jane Bennett") |
| WJF5 'The 'Jolly Frog' (there's nothing...) 2013 oil on canvas 25 x 31cm Available |
It is part of the "Holden" sign of the neighbouring car yard, and says in full "There's nothing quite like a Holden".
Detail of WJF5 'The 'Jolly Frog' (there's nothing...)
2013 oil on canvas 25 x 31cm
The entire sign was rather ironic, come to think of it.
"There's nothing like a Holden" ?
Oh, but there is - Ford, Ansett, Gowings,Toyota, possibly even SPC Ardmona and Qantas to join them.
I chose the phrase "the boiling frog" as appropriate to christen my first post about painting the "Jolly Frog".
The differences from one day to the next are apparently imperceptible, but it is harder and harder to go back.
I've just read the excellent historical notes on the self-guided Windsor Heritage Walk, that I discovered in the Macquarie Arms Hotel.
Apparently this area on the bank of South Creek was the Green Hills Burial Ground. It was in use from the early 1800s until Governor Lachlan Macquarie proclaimed the new burial ground in 1811,now the cemetery of St Matthews Anglican Church. It is thought that until the 1840s criminals continued to be buried on the bank of South Creek in unmarked graves.
No wonder I felt uneasy around the riverbank behind the Jolly Frog.
A ghost town in more ways than one.
They might well be spinning in them now.
To mix my metaphors, I hope the frog is a phoenix in disguise and will rise from its ashes.
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