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.

This is certainly also true. Reconstructing a walk of several months from memory and jottings in the margins of a guidebook a considerable period afterwards is going to involve considerable invention, condensation, speculative attribution of certain events to certain places and at certain places in the timeline. And that would be the case whether you were genuinely trying to give an accurate account or whether you were omitting, embellishing, shifting events about by long periods etc.

The Times now joining in on the story about the farm

https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/salt-path-raynor-winn-gaslit-banker-dn5w3b3mk

I think if it was just errors of recall it would be entirely forgivable and uninteresting.

But inserting an entirely different version of the fundamentals and presenting it was "unflinchingly true" is today wild

From the Penguin article, this is so funny. I just can't work out what the writer means. Surely everyone who cuts their own wood has piles of wood drying out?
Otherworldly piles of sticks are dotted around the orchard – a rarely seen, centuries-old technique for drying out wood he’s brought back. They’ve become such sites of ecological interest that academics from nearby universities have been studying them.

In TSP sequel I note Ray is mentioning drinking from streams etc as she does in TSP & I think gives unsterilised water to Moth once. O/T a bit, but is this as dangerous as I think it might be? I’d personally not be keen on eating wild mushrooms & mussels either especially if ill. I know they were on uppers but I’d be worried about lack of good nutrition.

Is your husband dying and do you have the proof? Direct question is the best way to go. Unless there's an amount of intimidation involved. For example the person asking the question is young and inexperienced to the role.

More to the point - she said he had a 2 year terminal diagnosis in 2013 - the. Ok wouldn’t have gone to an editor or agent until 2016 at the earliest?

surely the first question is around whether or not he is still alive!

That's hilarious. How daft.

Yes that would be correct and having read a film review I was expecting to learn of his death but was shocked to say the least that he was still 'miraculously' alive. Which is why I'm on these threads.

After Erin Patterson I will NEVER be accepting wild mushroom offerings from anyone, no matter how hungry I may be. I'd rather eat the grass.

This is from Mountaineering Scotland and is only about water courses in mountains above human habitation. However, I don't know anyone who wouldn't use at least one of the sterilisation/filtration methods mentioned.

You've got no idea if there's a decomposing sheep or whatever lying in the water upstream. And lots of lovely illnesses detailed that you can get.

Giving a terminal ill man unsterilised water is as stupid as dragging him on a 630 mile walk.

https://www.mountaineering.scot/safety-and-skills/health-and-hygiene/drinking-water

I was taught to assume there's a dead sheep upstream.

These are special piles of wood, though!

Academics have studied them.

Honestly, I feel ashamed of myself for lapping up this crap.

Probably one buried by the WalkerWinns

And, from my experience, sometimes there is a dead sheep just upstream! Happily, I was looking for a crossing, not drinking the water!

I'm going to contact the local uni and see if any academics would like to study my pile of rotting wood in the garden. There's even an old apple tree nearby. How could they refuse?

Good life assumption in general.

Yes it works figuratively as well as literally in relation to TSP.for starters

Although there being a dead bird in your attic water tank as a reason you shouldn't drink out of the upstairs bathroom tap doesn't seem to be a thing any more.

I think people don't tend to have water tanks in the attic now??? I knew someone this happened to 40 years ago though - they thought the water tasted a bit odd when they were cleaning their teeth, and found a dead pigeon in the tank😁

I think for some people who have never come across a grifter before it is impossible to believe how utterly devoid of scruples they are. Honesty is simply not part of their vocabulary. An embezzler who went on to steal from a campsite and small shop is not a person for whom integrity exists. From this I deduce she is incapable of telling the truth..along with Moth

Yep, still do in my house 😶

"Nearby universities" like which ones? Oh yes, I see, none. 🙄

Amazing the "nearby universities" all had "academics" so fascinated by someone copying a well-known centuries-old way of drying wood.

Unbelievable. Thank goodness I didn't waste my time reading that shit.

My Mum still has a water tank in her loft. We were always told not the drink the water from the bathroom tap.

I've got a water tank in the loft but it only feeds the hot water tank. Cold water comes direct from the mains.