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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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.

That's interesting. In TSP when they reach Duckpool (just north of Bude) and meet Grant he tells them it's been 36 degrees there that day (don't know the date but it would have been August/September 2013). When I checked historical weather websites the highest max temp recorded for those months was 25 degrees. I'm not sure how accurate these sites are?

Now that is a book I would read.

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Dear Mumsnet Towers,
please bring back the laugh emoji.
TVM

Simon - if you are reading this please go light on the poop details. I have two teenage boys in the house, I read books to escape the scatalogical conversations

Grant's a liar too! I knew he was shifty.

Maybe he could just construct that part into poetry!

Hi Simon if you are here DM me and we'll talk royalties.

Unfortunately yes and like the Walker-Winn-Wyns they didn't bring trowels. It was at the time when people discovered walking in the countryside as exercise who perhaps wouldn't have come out walking previously and the public loos were closed. Don't get me started on the parking and litter. Things like eggs, jam and honey for sale in gateways were being stolen and even an honesty box itself was taken. Hmm, I wonder if the WWWs were in the area?!

The first Observer article was very weak in places. The insinuations about CBS/CBD in particular, which I believe were completely unethical. The second article was full of tittle-tattle. On a general note, I’d like to see the paper going after bigger fish. We know that RW has mucked up in her past (whether “mistakes” or theft - I said earlier that we may never know). But it’s the frenzied urgency to bring someone down that I can’t stand. The Observer is leading the charge, but the vibe on MN is also of a witch hunt. If RW is confirmed as an embezzler, I’d prefer to go the Timpson’s route than call for her to be hung, drawn and quartered. I’ve read again and again on here that some contributors wish RW no ill. Yet the 360 degree character assassination has real life consequences. Arguing that she may have caused others deep heartache does not justify the deliberate and sustained efforts to damage her. I don’t believe in an eye for an eye.

Poo-etry? Sorry. I’ll see myself out…

Oh gosh, that's so grim. We were lucky, noone bothered with our little corner as it isn't very well known/scenic, but I know further along the coast they had big issues.

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Open goal to be fair.

Poo-etry in Motion? A song for Salt Path: The Musical. Poo-sical?

Well I have been called Raynor Winn, Raynor’s agent, Raynor’s friend, a generalised plant, a flouncy drive-by, and sanctimonious. I’ve also been told that I’m unable to digest a large amount of information, don’t understand what evidence is, and have been laughed at for a spelling mistake. As OP, I would hope that you will apply the same standards to the inner circle of Miss Marples on this thread.

TBF some of that is verifiable.

There you go again.

Apologies.

I think these threads are an act of covert Fudge Bar advertising. I actually didn’t think the Cadbury’s Fudges existed any more. Now I have an urge to eat one.

"tasty and easy to shoplift"

We may never know whether Raymoth remortgaged their house to repay a debt they never owed.
Meanwhile, here we are with our cruel torches and ducking stools, when our poor victimised victims could be more gainfully employed replacing our watch batteries.

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@Humankindness Any comment on the Times, Telegraph, Mail, Spectator, Sun, BBC etc who have all reported extensively on the matter? Are their pieces equally full of holes? Should they also be focused on more important matters?

In what way is interviewing Consultant Neurologists about the progress of rare neurodegenerative disorders and reporting their perspective making "insinuations"?

Having read both Sally Walker's "rebuttal" and listened to Mrs Hemmings and her daughter account of events - I'm confident that there was embezzlement.

Probably best to reserve the hyperbole for a piece of fiction, should you ever chose to write one. Asking an author about large holes in their high-profile "completely factual" piece of work isn't hanging, drawing and quartering.

Widespread press attention for some people must be deeply uncomfortably, I agree. It's slightly harder to argue that case when the subject in this instance has spoken to print and broadcast outlets on numerous occasions over the past few years.