Thread 7: 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

Fourth item in The Observer
‘I felt I was being gaslit’ – the landlord who helped Ray...

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Keep on the path as we have done together amazingly well for six threads so far. No saltiness. Thank you.

It's all so very dodgy. But I get the feeling that little people don't count when it comes to this couple.

It's linked somewhere on thread one or two or three but it's Series 12, episode 3.

It's quite unintentionally hilarious as it features the first glimpse of the, "Powder Blue Rayburn" and the couple looking at it so resemble Raymoth that you do a double take.

Here you go!

She even, "Took early retirement from accountancy."

Thank you! Just found it on you tube. Gosh you’re right about the couple. They’re doppelgängers

Not really. Humans do love to tinker and interfere. A patch of brambles, messy as it might look, is heaven for eg small songbirds and butterflies. But most people like to throw enormous amounts of effort into making something look like what their idea of "wild" is. I seem to recall a story about one of the wildlife trusts desperately recruiting volunteers to clear every last globe thistle off their land when these plants are very valuable to wildlife.

For an overview of how a rewilded estate works, "Wilding" by Isabella Tree is the classic. However, they got away with not constantly chainsawing and scrub bashing by introducing "nature's landscape engineers"- cattle, pigs and ponies, who clear scrub and turn over soil, creating a mosaic of habitats.

(But even if you don't introduce livestock, the humble bunny can do a surprising amount of landscape engineering!)

This is a brilliantly articulate post, encapsulating all I feel is ‘wrong’ with entertainment and the media today - it’s just so tiresome and I am also bored to tears with it!

Wasn't just me who thought that, or even said it first. It's interesting to watch it again a week later for us OGs. So many things we didn't know about in the dim and distant past of last week.

I think we all want to gaze upon the, "Powder Blue Rayburn" with refreshed eyes.

I think so. I saw a forum enquiry CH made as well - got shot down by others saying its not a forum for selling books.

I'd love to get my hands on a copy. It seems like a good read going by two reviews I've seen. It definitely has parallels to the RayMoth story...

...a free-spirited family with a car full of children and dreams move to the Llyn peninsular; a businessman who scans property markets and makes a fortune in London; past decisions that start to impact their lives, a signature that has two very different outcomes; divisions within Wales and divisions between urban and rural, poverty and wealth; the fierce elements driving them from a patch of land that should never have been theirs; and an investment that future is based on goes painfully wrong.

An excerpt:
"She wasnt supposed to be this person, she was a pure soul, transparent, simple. How did the grime creep in and destroy the heart of her? Picking her apart cell by cell. Truth, freedom, self-respect, a birthright squandered for a dream, for love. She strains every sinew to prevent herself uploading into the void shes become."

Is this a response to her embezzlement perhaps?

Yes about Knepp and the introduction of the animals. I do think it needs a bit more thought than what seems to have happened on the Village Du Dropt property, because that house/ruin in going to get utterly swamped and it seems a pity. The nonsense about "saving it from developers" is even more hollow when it is clearly being allowed to fall down by itself.

Knepp is a vast estate which makes money through conventional agriculture.

Misery is other people's joy. I see it happening a lot.

Did she do it all for him, ‘for love’? That’s a very interesting excerpt.

Of course they don't. The little people are not speshul, they live in horrid cities, not needing wide open spaces and money that they actually earn.

Which house is theirs?

Thanks to this thread I've got "Powder Blue Rayburn" going through my head to the tune of "Little Red Corvette"

It. Lost. I'm not going to link the Prince track in case some of you can yet be saved.

Also, rich people.

They have zero respect from RayMoth.

And yet they are now, rich…

They have the thought that they are intellectually superior.

Ah but they deserve to be rich. Other rich people like stupid old bull the investment banker did it though conning old ladies

oh wait…

My brain plays to to "pink pony club" (doesn't quite fit but my brain doesn't care!)

The first one. The one storey whitewashed farmhouse with allegedly, "Powder Blue Rayburn" at 8mins 58 seconds. Although, and it might be the quality of my cheapy phone screen or the dim lighting it looks more kind of RAF blue to me.

I like periwinkle blue myself. For a caravan.

The farmhouse was advertised with 1,5 acres of land (including a paddock).

Source: Escape to the country 12 x 3 Wales

I captured the land they were “farming” and the famous powder blue Rayburn 😂

Thanks @Animaladina , brilliant.

What were they farming, moles?

Yeah unless they were renting more land from a neighbour, that isn't enough to farm. Perhaps if you were growing intensive small crops, like it was filled with polytunnels of microgreens, but otherwise... nah.

It also looks like any maintainance done on it was done by a handful of sheep.

Escape to the Country are crackers suggesting it is enough to keep horses on, its barely enough for one and unless that one is a hardy welsh pony that grass wouldn't sustain the poor beast and horses shouldn't be alone!

I digress - HOW bizarre is it that those two frankly make a better RayMoth than GA and JI do!