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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Raynor Winn/Sally Walker's statement Raynor Winn

New posters welcome. It would be helpful to read at least the four Observer items above before posting.

To all - Please be careful when it comes to naming or implicating people and addresses not in the public eye or with no connection to the story, and around the understandable health speculations, especially where details are unclear or still emerging. Please do not engage with possible visitors who seem to have their own agenda and seek to derail.
Keep on the path as we have done together amazingly well for six threads so far. No saltiness. Thank you.

@DisappointedReader thanks for all your work here & new thread. What would you like to see particularly unpacked in Observer on Sunday?

@CheerybleBrothers You can't do better than me. I got knocked up by the gendarmerie in my flat, minding my own business, trying to do my homework for the ill fated, "Introduction To Social Work" course that I took on before I went completely wonky and couldn't complete the full three or four years...

Anyway, the pair of them somehow got into the flats' entry system and did that particular knock that makes you jump out of your skin. Then they said, "Police!"

"Allo." said the me, opening the door a crack.

(I can't do any more of this in French. Too tired )

"We are looking for a certain Dimitri."
"I don't know any Dimitris." (I do know a few Dimitris but never help the fuzz )
"Thankyou Madame."

"We're just doing a door to door."
"Thankyou. No Dimitri here."
"Thankyou."
"Thankyou, good day."
"Can I close the door now?"
"Of course Madame."
"Thankyou."

Wavy hand, wavy hand. "Bye, bye!"
"Bye, bye!"

Shut door behind me and do that thing that all the gangster's molls do in films where they put their back against the door and breathe deeply. Even though I didn't have any Dimitris!

WHAT THE?

Turns out poor Dimitri was the dead deaded!

Porto-Vecchio : l'homme suspecté d'avoir abattu Dimitri Ribault mis en examen et écroué https://share.google/zvPOCVWDgx9IhdVX4

Those are the stairs in the holiday let not the main house. Although I guess they could have been hiding in that property rather than their main house!

Can those who had a post removed tell us what was in their post obviously leaving out the names or whatever bit they think got it deleted. Have we missed anything which increases our knowledge?

Yes the nephew has a story or two to tell. Also if they have totally fallen out with France brother it would be great to hear his side of the story about how he came to own a pigeon tower next door to Tim and Sally’s ’house’ and what caused the falling out.

Stories from Abersoch - was she really made redundant from an Abersoch hotel?

Or the evidence that they were surfing in Newquay and being driven to Bristol by their son as more evidence the book is fake. Not sure how you prove they didn’t walk it all but I would read about that.

You can't do better than me. I got knocked up by the gendarmerie in my flat...

@Redheadedstepchild Does 'knocked up' mean the same in* *Porto-Vecchio as it does here? 😁

How very dare you! I retained complete allegiance to the Corsican code of, "Omerta"

I was rudely interrupted in my studies by two pinzutu (French mainlanders.) Police or no police. For the gendarmerie here is completely pinzutu.

I told them nothing. But I was violated in my own home by their rude banging, open up or else knock! That should be enough to be an affront to my honour. They had no business asking me if I was holding a fugitive.

Anyway. Whatever befell poor Dimitri and it seemed to be a dispute over who owed money to whom, it was on the other (wrong) side of the mointain. I live in Haute Corse and Porto Vecchio is in Corse du Sud. We have nothing to do with each other.

Any or all of the following:

• insights from the nephew and brother who owns the chateau in France
• more detail on the 2013 CBD diagnosis
• any info on other misdemeanours by the Walkers from Pwilheli residents
• info on why SW left the hotel job in Abersoch
• the thoughts of the elusive Grant about his depiction in TSP
• more on How not to Dal dy Dir and the Gangani Publishing house raffle
• interviews with Polruan residents who knew them
• more info about the original investment in the uncle's property portfolio and how it all unravelled
• anecdotes and observations from people who may or may not have met them on the SWCP or featured in TSP (the cafe owner etc)
• insights from publishers/agents about how TSP progressed from MS to publication
• anecdotes of Moth's days as an eco warrior
• medical insights into what is the most likely explanation for the path of Moth's illness, whatever it may be

Doctors publish case reports when they see an unusual case which probably indicates that severe pregabalin withdrawal as described in this case is unusual.

Some of those connected to this might be negotiating their own book deals.

A dig into the background behind the original flit to Wales.

This!

Agree!

The Kit Williams Masquerade style puzzle is revealed.
Competition between brothers leads to elaborate plan with an ill fitting Golden Boot as the prize.
Easy win/Izzy Winn and fly by night/moth they Reign over publishing, ticking off zeitgeist plotpoints as the miracle cures and distances get wilder and longer.

Mulder and Scilly end up running around a Forestry Commission woodland at dusk till nothing is revealed.

Well all the fuss doesn't seem to have done the book any harm:

General paperbacks
1 The Salt Path by Raynor Winn (Penguin £10.99)
A couple of 32 years discover the healing power of the natural world (6,235)

The Sunday Times Bestsellers List — the latest UK book charts

The trajectory is down though. Over the last 5 weeks since the film was released weekly total sales of TSP have been 14,145, 12,290, 9,245, 7,535 and last week 6,235.

Assuming one of my posts was removed (haven't checked and didn't get a notification) mine was originally off the back of a pp wondering if RayMoth had any friends besides Dave and Julie from the book. I pointed out some other names mentioned in TSP could actually be certain relatives (who I named by first name only and their relationship) as opposed to friends. It didn't add any insight, was just an observation, but I can understand why the posts were removed for the sake of caution.

Caught up. I think anything I'd like to see explored has been comprehensively covered by everyone else but I think more of their backstory would be enlightening.

I decided to buy a couple of SA's walking books yesterday. You'll never guess what's on the "because you bought this you might like this" thingy from Amazon. You will, actually 😂

Can't help but think the Walkers were born in the wrong era. Half of my Insta feed is filled with people renovating old, falling to bits properties. Some of whom are real influencers, like Man With A Hammer, who wrote a book. Even the couple who bought the terraced house next door to their own in a Lancashire mill town to make one house have been doing really well.

If they'd had that option open to them they could have made quite a bit of money from their Welsh house from the moment the moved there.

We've posted what we hope the Observer will be printing on Sunday.

But what do we think they'll actually be going with?

Another interview with someone connected?

That's interesting, isn't it, and backs up the theory that Moth was affected by it when he walked ( he dragged his foot ) but it got better when he came off it but they attributed the recovery to walking.

Last week's was a pretty light touch article in a way, it felt like a place holder. My guess is there has been some pretty deep digging going on. I am wondering if it will be a story we haven't even guessed at yet (like the theft one- I knew the house loss story "didn't pass the sniff test" but I would never have guessed at theft on a grand scale)

I think an interview, possibly family.

True, but I myself had problems for a long time and on support groups have found the same

I think if the Observer just does a deeper dive into the key points of the original story, they run the danger of running up sympathy for Ray/Moth so it will be something significant.