Thread 6: To feel disappointed after reading this in The Observer about the author and her husband from The Salt Path book and film?

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The Observer The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were ...

Second article in the Observer
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-salt-path-whats-in-the-book-and-what-the-observer-has-found

Third item in the Observer
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-salt-path-the-truth-behind-the-blockbuster-book-video

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Raynor Winn/Sally Walker's statement Raynor Winn

NB Please be careful when it comes to naming or implicating people who aren't in the public eye or have no connection to the story, especially where details are unclear or still emerging i.e. DON'T DO IT.

Keep on the path. No saltiness. Thank you.

New posters welcome. It would be helpful to read at least the three Observer articles before posting.

When I first read the book I felt quite cross with them on behalf of their children, who seemed anxious about their parents and at one point I think they asked the children for money?

This is because I grew up with quite chaotic parents and I know what that feels like. They split up dramatically and lost their home (predictably, by handing in notice on a home which came with a job) when I was a teen and turned to me for support then.

I also doubted his illness severity and posted about this in a thread ion here at the time and was told off for not being sympathetic / understanding. It seems a lot of people were taken in by it all.

Those are rhetorical questions.

In contrast, RayMoth seem to have a terrier, commonly used for sniffing out rats. Hmmm, I bet that keeps him busy.

@Stravaig I'd like to take it further and see a prequel beginning with the older Ray and Mot, Gillian and Issac, reflecting back on the disaster they created from the ruins of a leaky French 'chateaux' and their younger selves being played by new actors from Staffordshire/Midlands.

The leaky roof scene obviously carries on to a stormy night when nuptials have taken place. Going in brave 😀

They moved from Burton-upon-Trent to Criccieth in the early 90s, I think, because he'd been volunteering at Plas yn Rhiw before he got the job there in 1995.

He worked as a plasterer for his dad before they moved. I wonder what they both did at college.

Actually the perfect next move is Celebrity Traitor

Does she make or miss deadlines is not a rhetorical question.

Or, as a medical miracle, Moth could do Strictly.

It's pretty astounding they had the gall to write in the Big Issue about homelessness etc while still having the property in France, run down or not they could still have stayed there in a caravan or sold it to make some money to tide them over with rent for a bit.

And then recently they were doing talks / events for Crisis (I think the charity was, a homeless charity as well). taking a fee for that too, taking the piss really isn't it.

I think he's the perfect replacement for MasterChef.

Jesus wept.

Did I read that Timoth claimed a degree in Botany at that stage? Perhaps in the BBC item he featured in about Plas Yn Rhiw? It is linked to somewhere on a previous thread. Salray was said to be a law clerk?

Funny!!! 😆

@DisappointedReader is ‘would I lie to you’ ? still going . A shoe in surely

Yes I expect by the time of doing the Crisis talks they would have around several million from the sale of the books!

He could demonstrate the versatility of the humble Pot Noodle.

I remember reading that. What did he do his second degree in?

I found some of the articles they had in the Big Issue, interesting to reflect back on that now.

"Suddenly finding themselves labelled as homeless, Raynor Winn and her husband found purpose in walking 630 miles of the South West Coast Path. After finishing their trek, Winn contacted The Big Issue. She wanted to write about hidden homelessness, rural poverty and the prejudice she had encountered.
It was a startling, heartening eye-opener, generating a sensational response from readers and helping Winn land a book deal"

https://www.bigissue.com/culture/books/we-took-a-leap-of-faith-towards-the-hope-of-a-greener-wilder-future/

https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/rural-england-homeless-problem-hidden/

https://www.bigissue.com/culture/film/the-salt-path-raynor-winn-gillian-anderson-jason-isaacs-interview/

I rather wonder if he didn't charm the people at Plas yn Rhiw, and he no more has a botany degree than I do.

He could indeed be confused with a stretched out Paul Hollywood with his twinkly blue eyes.

Following a report by investigative meercats, Paul has also been exposed - for using boxed cake mixes instead of baking from scratch.

Do you know, actually. I've never quite thought about this. Not enough to imply that if you have a terminal neurological condition you can just walk it off, but also - if you are homelsss, just go for a lovely walk!

Plus there's fudge bars and tea bags. A wonderful dessert reflecting the stormy, gunmetal seas with cider. Grey inedible sludge not acceptable.

Also, every time somebody posts an extract of Sally's writing on here I can't believe how cringeworthy and hackneyed it is. The way she describes the city-dwelling cider farm guy makes her and Tim sound like the pair who ran the shop in The League of Gentlemen. 'Thems hands had never felt the sharp sting of the frost as they plucked turnips from the peaty earth in a Michaelmas storm. Thems hands had never plunged into the hot, quickening belly of a grateful mother stoat to rescue her dying, desperate kits. Thems be soft city hands, theys be.' I'd like to see Craig Brown do a parody of it

This made me laugh immoderately. I haven’t read any of the books but I feel as though I have, after so many quotes on these threads - and I saw the Rick Stein clip with Salnor intoning her spoken word over music.

TBH the thing it really puts me in mind of is ‘Cold Comfort Farm’ - where all the LITERATURE bits were marked by asterisks.

**The country for miles, under the blanket of the dark which brought no peace, was in its annual tortured ferment of spring growth; worm jarred with worm and seed with seed. Frond leapt on root and hare on hare. Beetle and finch-fly were not spared. The trout-sperm in the muddy hollow under Nettle Flitch Weir were agitated, and well they might be. The long screams of the hunting owls tore across the night, scarlet lines on black. In the pauses, every ten minutes, they mated. It seemed chaotic, but it was more methodically arranged than you might think

😂 Love Stella Gibbons

Did SalRay say it was some kind of ecological horticulture degree? Perhaps on the interview with Sophie Raworth?

So here's an odd thing. RW is on public record as having been briefly a trustee of the charity Emmaus Cornwall, under the name RW, from November 2020 to November 2021.

But since April 2020, (other than for rare dispensations that involve a formal application for an exception to be made where there are overriding reasons to do so), the Charity Commission has required that a trustee's publicly displayed name must be their legal name.

Odd.