Thread 2. To feel disappointed after reading this in The Observer about the author and her husband from The Salt Path book and film?

[AWanderingFool]

Thread Two for The Salt Path and Raynor Winn/Sally Walker/Sally Winn discussions.

Thread One is here: www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5368194-to-feel-disappointed-after-reading-this-in-the-observer-about-the-author-and-her-husband-from-the-salt-path-book-and-film?

It's described only as 'tax credits'. She says that as Moth had become unable to work on health grounds, their income was only what was coming in from renting their barn to tourists, which she says made them eligible for a 'payment from the government'. Which I suppose means she wasn't working either.

Where is this quote from please? Looking online and cannot find it.

Something (else) that I can't make sense of is wouldn't the mortgage company have had the first call on the debt? So how did that leave another £150,000 for the court to award to these other people if the house value was less than the two combined?

Their nephew, a respected naval architect, says this:

Something a little different from me.

The people behind The Salt Path books are not who you think they are. The real people, Sally and Tim Walker, my Uncle & Aunt, are pathological liers who have always left a trail of destruction behind them.

Ouch. It's all unraveling now.

Wow! Interesting that he is also called James.

I do wish he had spelt liars correctly, it would have had more impact

He's obviously very fond of them.

I don't think so. Doubling down would have been enrolling someone else instead of Raynor/Sally for the readings & carrying on with the 'Saltlines' tour. Instead Gigspanner just posted on Facebook that they are continuing their tour but instead of 'Saltlines' will be presenting their new album 'Turnstone'. I imagine they feel pretty betrayed.

https://www.facebook.com/peterknights.gigspanner/posts/pfbid0ytimCPJucSL6B7CSJSafJwHA55fivC6o6wVprgL8CWFNr2WYt5rDUrx2LhkCQNmml

@borogovia made it up. It's their guess on what the Walker/Wynn's will eventually say to explain themselves, and I would guess not too far wide off the mark either.

It was made up by another poster as an example of how they might try to wriggle out of it. It isn't real

Bet Christmas dinner is a riot!

I don't think so, he just reads Beowulf alongside the buskers with Raynor going around with a hat, and it turns out that unbeknownst to them, Seamus Heaney has just died.

But I think it's in St Ives they finally see a poster that explains who Simon Armitage is, bringing an end to an extremely unfunny longhaul joke...

Well the nephew has blown things apart

i I imagine lots and lots of people have stories about them but either thibk they’ll be ignored or called bitter. But now everyone will come forward and the house of cards is teetering

Wow!

The mortgage lender would have had first call. The creditors would have got whatever was left. The court simply ordered that the creditors could repossess the home, not how much they would get from the sale.

Oh I call bullshit on that one too. They weren't renting their barn to anybody because they had lost it with the house, so what would the government have been paying them for? I am more and more thinking the entire walk was BS.

I think they mean before they lost the farm their only source of income was the barn

when they lost the income they signed on

In the film I feel it's implied that they decided to make the most of people thinking Timothy was Simon Armitage and that's why they did the reading.

Agree.

I think she wrote that the £48 was a tax credit, rather than JSA. Their only source of income that I know of was their B&B business which didn't necessarily pay a lot, and presumably that would have continued to be paid automatically until they filed their tax return.

Why couldn’t they get job seekers allowance?

Would his terminal illness have qualified him for PIP?

I bet that nephew is being contacted by lots of journalists right now.

I wonder if he'll tell any more?

I think this is what I needed to clear any lingering doubts that the whole thing has been a pack of lies.

I imagine they did walk bits of the path, and that perhaps he's ill in some way. But that's about it.

They are both very obviously total shysters.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7347531559484243968/

OMG!!!

He posted that yesterday. I came across a screenshot on a Reddit hiking subforum of all places.

I don't think more than a handful of people have seen what he's said about them.