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?

The book needs to be renamed 'The Pinch of Salt Path'

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in my area there is currently a huge con posing as an organisation ‘for women’.

Numerous people have tried to report but it gets no traction, there is no appetite to challenge what is portrayed widely as an amazing organisation doing valuable work. It isn’t and doesn’t but the socials look amazing and they give great message, always showing up at the right events and saying the right things. If you challenge anything you are very quickly turned into the bad one.

Lots of people give their money freely and lots of others look on in horror. It turns out it’s not as easy as speaking up and providing evidence, some grifters wear their causes like Teflon cloaks 🤷🏻‍♀️

@Merrymouse
@Aspanielstolemysanity

Yes, very true, it is the implication that doing x produces y.

Family members making suggestions about how I could try that or do this.

I actually think it comes from a place of fear. They know deep down their suggestions are rubbish, that some folk are just living the hand they’ve been dealt, and that they too could wake up one morning and have a chronic condition that won’t get better. But to feel some sense of control they pretend illness can be fixed by doing something, anything!

I don't think we should be trawling their children's social media accounts. They've got nothing to do with this.

This sounds unreal. I’m honestly astonished at this. How can he run/walk 25 miles with no training whilst being so ill?

Only on page two but you've just won the thread. Congrats!

I agree , especially as I get to a place of acceptance with my illness. It's people who are afraid to acknowledge that they can't control everything about their lives.

I thibk it’s saying he got to that point to cheer them on - not that he ran 25 miles!!

Brilliant !

They walked it together in 2023 in aid of the charity

Fandango52 - the dad made it to the finish line in support, but didn't run the marathon.
In fact, the son was running to raise money for the PSP charity, which is an admirable thing to do, and an amazing achievement. Can't comment on the dad's illness though.

Oh 😂😂 that sounds much more plausible!

That is lovely. I’m sure there’ll be parts of the story that come out that expose them, but stuff like this is just nice.

12 years (2013 to 2025) - The Observer subeditor clearly didn't pick up the typo and published 18 in error. I expect it'll be amended when they realise. Nevertheless, even 12 years seems implausible!

Could have condensed it in one sentence. I went for a walk and I felt better. But of course it had to be embellished for the misery memoir which is full of passive aggressive people feeling sorry for themselves and blaming "the system." Bound to be a hit.

That Facebook post implies he is very ill. Hard to square with the photos but sometimes it can be misleading. Perhaps he has another condition- perhaps he is a medical miracle. It seems unlikely the kids would be that deep in the con

(I would rather he didn’t actually have CBD as it’s a horrible thing)

It would be very easy for them to provide evidence that Moth/Tim has CBD. As Raynor/Sally has already published several books disclosing his health status, a film has been made and they have both given several interviews, they can hardly argue that it would be an invasion of privacy to publish conclusive and verified confirmation of his condition. A doctor can speak about these things with the patient's permission.

A photo of an appointment letter or some relevant prescribed medication would have been enough to hold the journalist off /get an induction

Presumably it’s because she’d done a deal with the publishers and had to deliver another book!

Thanks :)

Maybe that's the misleading part alluded to by the spokeswoman.

A grain of truth there somewhere

Exactly. If I was Moth and everything I'd said was legit then I'd be straight on Get Up Britain or whatever the morning telly show Richard Madeley presents is called with my doctor in the studio tomorrow morning to refute this completely completely.