From Hyde Park to Hampstead Heath, from Battersea Park to Peckham Rye Common groups of people touched by the importance of the imminent park-exchange have left the comfort of their homes on a windy bank holiday monday to demonstrate their involvement and make many more people aware. Sounding klaxons, chanting and waving home-made banners the message is clear: the swap cannot go un-noticed and so will not go un-announced. This group photographed in Ruskin Park Camberwell were eager to emphasise their concerns for the knock-on effects of the change. Audrey Rose, a full-time student, stated 'I mean, where does it end... first these two parks and then more?... and what next football stadiums, beaches?' This seemed to be a sentiment shared by all, while the purpose of their rally was concisely summed up by gardener Benjamin Wilkins-Gardiner who added 'if just one person sees these banners and looks it up for themselves... logs on to this admirable blog and helps find some truth, then we've done our job.'

Rallies Take Place in Parks Across London

Gedenkstatte Heldenberg

The Gedenkstatte Heldenberg (literally translated as Hero Mountain) is the resting place of the infamous Austrian Field Marshall Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, hero of 17 campaigns and butcher of Milan. Radetzky bequeathed his remains to Joseph Gottfried Pargfrieder who decades earlier had settled his debts. An illegitimate son of the Austrian Emperor Joseph II, who had made his fortune by supplying the Austrian army, Pargfrieder created this vast monument in a fit of patriotism in 1858. Radetzky lies under a monumental obelisk. Along with this grave, are two monuments. One to the Italian campaign of 1848 and the other to the Hungarian campaign of 1849. Each monument has a column surrounded by the busts of the eminent fallen dead. Two of the busts in the Italian are of particular interest. Standing side by side, you could easily walk past, two more dead soldiers, who died protecting a decaying state in its last throws of greatness under chancellor Metternich, the man who made Europe after the defeat of Napoleon. Under these two busts inscribed into the stone are the names, Antonio Count of Cannizaro and Mattias von Augarten. How these two new each other is unknown, all we know is that both died in the battle of Turin, as the King of Piedmont battled to drive out the Austrans of Italy. Excitingly this tells us there is a historical connection between the two parks that bare their names, how important this connection is remains to be seen

Popul Vuh

The Mayan Popul Vuh, or the book of the people, was their most sacred text and tells of their history and their legends but also prophesies the future. Upon greater research our most academic of scholars stumbled upon one strange section. Here it is translated into English for the benefit of those unable to read Mayan or the Quiche language, this section comes from the Chichicastenango manuscript:

"these are the name of the divinity, arranged in pairs in accord with the dual conception of the Quiche: Tzacol and Bitol, Creator and Maker. Alom, the mother god, she who conceived the sons, Qaholom, the father god who begat the sons. Let your nature be known, Hunahpu-Vuch, Hunahpu-Ytiu, twice-mother, twice-father, Nim-Ac, Nim-Tziis, Cannizaro-Augarten, who twice swapped, Ixtlilxochitl who saw the world as it was."

Our scholar was amazed to find the two contemporary names here 'Cannizaro' and 'Augarten', in a script from the far-side of the world, and from a time long, long ago. What could it mean, what does it mean? We are as yet unable to tell you, but the date 2010 appears later in the text. Coincidence, hardly.

5 Days To Go - Transformation Theory and Quantam Mechanics

The shifting of the ground beneath the foundations of The Stephansdom cathedral may be explicable in light of P. A. M. Dirac's 1927 Transformation Theory in which objects are categorised as and alternate between waves and particles. It is the transformations within this duality that cause irrational and unexpected movements in 'Hilbert Space'. Therefore, if the ground beneath The Stephansdom is shifting from particle to wave and a similar alternation is taking place beneath Cannizaro House (largely rebuilt in the 1920s due to similar infrastructural collapse) then it seems highly possible that the entire earth crust beneath the two parks may become unstable wave-forms in constant motion. Such frenetic base vibrations will surely lead to complete geographical exchange.

Herald Flys To Fleckeby

The Herald, the Wandsworth-based original, has just sent us this email:

"Dear purveyors of truth,
I email for two pressing and crucial reasons.
First, while examining 'The Tome Of Spiritual Magnetism' in the small hours of this morning it occurred to me in a flash of inspiration to turn to page 118. The number and it's relationship with the mathematical constant ca, demonstrated on this very blog, seems to have a fundamental connection with May 7 and the swap. What I found on page 118 was strange and wondrous indeed. The page gave a brief history of the German town of Fleckeby, a complete non-sequitor with the rest of the book: nothing before or after this page explains or contextualises it. Why? Fleckeby is the key, clearly. The original page 118, the page explaining the park-swap and accurately predicting it, must be somewhere in Fleckeby - perhaps in an original copy of the Tome?
I have booked a Ryan Air flight to nearby Kiel and hope to be there by morning. Whatever my investigation uncovers will be quickly relayed to you and from you to the hungry public.
The second issue is that of 'Das Herald' or 'The True Herald'. I disprove his claims for authorship of the 'The Tome of Spiritual Magnetism' with a single fact: my copy of the tome was published in the 19th century. Unless 'Das Herald' is a century and a half old and has a white beard down to his kneecaps he is clearly just an online whack-job, trawling through the internet to avoid getting a job. If the park-swap brings political revoloution in it's wake (and I begin to feel that it might) he'll be first up against the wall in the cull.
The one and only

The Herald

p.s. If you need to reach me you can email on briancurry@ukonline.co.uk"

Oh mighty Herald, let thy words of wisdom permeate the web with the clarity of a sweetly struck gong and let thy speech communicate transcendental enlightenment (supported by first-hand field research) to all who hear.

Stephansdom in fear of collapse

The Stephansdom in Vienna has begun to suffer from structural damage. There are fears that the spire of the main tower will collapse into the street below. Repairs have begun in ernest. Head of the conservation team Sebastian van der Byke, especially brought in from Amsterdamn (a city famous for structural damage due to subsidence) to aid the work force, remains unsure of the reason for this weakening of the tower. He has tentatively suggested the Augarten might be to blame, "there is a seam of rock that runs between the 2nd district where the Augarten is situated and the 1st where the Stephansdom can be found, this seam appears to have shifted. We have of yet no clue why, however as it continues to do so the tower becomes more and more unstable". Is this shift to do with the change? Shift will often lead to swap.