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Thread 8: 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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DisappointedReader · 16/07/2025 23:41

Well, this has turned out to be slightly longer than the dozen or so replies I expected when I started the first thread!

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

2nd Observer
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-salt-path-whats-in-the-book-and-what-the-observer-has-found

3rd Observer
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-salt-path-the-truth-behind-the-blockbuster-book-video

4th 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 extremely cautious when it comes to naming or implicating people and addresses not in the public eye or with no direct 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.

We have done amazingly well together - in the main that is, not mentioning any names but you know who you are! - for seven threads so far. I can't be on the threads as much as I'd like so all help with keeping our discussion ticking along in a healthy and civil fashion is very welcome.

No saltiness. Keep to the path. Thank you.

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DisappointedReader · 16/07/2025 23:44

Please make sure Thread 7 is full before continuing the discussion here. Thanks all.

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Smike · 16/07/2025 23:44

Do you feel slightly like someone who thought they were throwing a select party for a few neighbours, only it turned out that they were waaay more popular thsn they thought, and had to start barricading the doors…?😀

Bruisername · 17/07/2025 00:07

Thanks!!

Aspanielstolemysanity · 17/07/2025 00:16

Night all

PullTheBricksDown · 17/07/2025 00:25

Posting to keep my place. I'll add that from an earlier post, it seems we have more follow up to come in this Sunday's Observer. And hasn't the story now shown it has legs?

YankSplaining · 17/07/2025 02:51

I only heard about these people for the first time in the last couple weeks. IDK, I feel like a person claiming to be named “Moth” should have been the first sign that something strange was going on here. 😂

Orangesandlemons77 · 17/07/2025 02:55

Thanks

Ritasueandbobtoo9 · 17/07/2025 04:34

Hello, wow thread 8. I read this book ages ago and enjoyed it despite thinking a few things were just not true. Mainly issue of housing and level of function improving with neurodegenerative disease. But I did not expect the level of deception that has happened. What next?

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Laska2Meryls · 17/07/2025 07:29

Oh, a new Observer story,! .. I had though that maybe with other events ( Gregg, John , possible Royal rapprochement etc ,) things may have moved on.. I imagine the Walkers would have hoped so ..

Aspanielstolemysanity · 17/07/2025 07:33

I don't think we should be talking about hunting for their current home @Laska2Meryls . I think it's heading into harassment territory

Laska2Meryls · 17/07/2025 07:34

Yes you are right I have self reported my post , and asked for it to be removed, Sorry..

NetZeroZealot · 17/07/2025 07:35

Looking forward to the next instalment in the Observer but I’ll leave it to the professional journalists thanks.

BusWankers · 17/07/2025 07:50

Wank 🤣🤣🤣

But let's be nice and go for Swan 😁

PhilippaGeorgiou · 17/07/2025 07:53

Marking

Aspanielstolemysanity · 17/07/2025 07:53

BusWankers · 17/07/2025 07:50

Wank 🤣🤣🤣

But let's be nice and go for Swan 😁

Grin
Aspanielstolemysanity · 17/07/2025 07:54

Stole

Which is rather apt for this thread.

AnnaQuayInTheUk · 17/07/2025 07:59

Lis.
Which is an actual name. Sort of.

OpenThatWindow · 17/07/2025 08:02

Thanks @DisappointedReader

FlyAgaricc · 17/07/2025 08:26

Old Guardian article, 2018, Sam goes to interview Sally in the Polruan flat. She regurgitates the same old stuff. As usual, Tim is absent but eventually comes back from his dog walk and his condition is mentioned:
Moth’s diagnosis hasn’t changed: he is still terminally ill, but he continues to defy his prognosis... He looks much better than I was expecting, a bit pale but with a big smile, a soft voice and a warm presence. He does feel sluggish though, and stiff...He can’t feel his feet a lot of the time. He is noticing that his memory slipping. “Don’t give me a question, or a choice of things to do,” he says... He tries not to think about his own mortality too much. “When the first deadline was given to me, yes, I thought about it almost constantly,” he says. He is measured and thoughtful, but sometimes an idea runs away from him. “But I think, erm … I think, erm … I think”
“I think you’re ready for a cup of tea now,” says Raynor, and she goes to put the kettle on."
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/dec/06/home-is-a-state-of-mind-you-dont-need-walls

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 17/07/2025 08:57

Just planting my flag here for when number 7s done.

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 17/07/2025 09:03

Reporting for duty! 😂

Toomuchstufff · 17/07/2025 10:04

2020 podcast where they are on the farm and it says Moth was at uni studying for a degree where he was living “a much more sedentary life and his health declined so quickly” — they do not correct the host when she clearly draws lines between activity eg walking and very much improved health

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