Thread 9: To feel disappointed after reading this in The Observer about the author and her husband from The Salt Path book and film?

[DisappointedReader]

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 visitors who seem to have their own agenda and seek to derail. Avoid @'ing and quoting them as this will only encourage them back to the threads.

We have done amazingly well together - in the main that is, not mentioning any names but you know who you are! - for eight 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.

Reporting for duty.

Just leaving some AI generated poetry here, like an unwanted turd on a Cornish beach

On Bude's broad beach, where Atlantic waves
Unfurl and crash, a solitary act
Takes place, unheralded, unseen, unheard
A deposit left, a calling card, compact

The sand, a canvas, takes the shape
Of my endeavour, warm, still steaming late
A monument to nature's urgent call
A splodge of brown, like soil, or autumn's fall

The seagulls wheel, indifferent, above
As I, a fleeting figure, claim my love
For this wild coast, where earthy scent
Mingles with salt, and seaweed's bent

The tide, a cleaner, will erase the sign
Of my brief visit, leaving no design
But for now, my mark, a temporary claim
To this stretch of sand, this North Cornwall fame

Just saving my seat...

Me too! Thanks for the thread, Disappointed.

This bit is gold 😂😂 true poo-etry.

’… takes the shape
Of my endeavour, warm, still steaming late
A monument to nature's urgent call‘.

ETA: Very Adrian Mole-esque. I haven’t read enough of the books to know, but being a teenage boy, surely he must have gone through a scatological phase?!

I think it might be time to make a AI generated poo-etry book, "the perfect gift for the hard-to-buy for half man half pirate half wild goat in your life. "

If we struggle to shift copies we can always throw in a raffle ticket for an over mortgaged cottage with a powder blue Rayburn

"the perfect gift for the hard-to-buy for half man half pirate half wild goat in your life. "

I think we all know a few of those!

Thanks

I attach my AI poem offering - on the subject of a damp squid!

A damp squid lay beneath the tide,
Its tentacles in soft seaweed hide.
No spark, no thrill, no lightning flash,
Just soggy sighs in ocean ash.
It dreamed of days with better flair,
But only drifted here and there.
No grand escape, no bold crusade,
Just dampness clung and colors fade.
Yet in its gloom, a charm resides,
A quiet life the wave provides.
Not every tale must roar or win—
Some simply glisten, soft and thin.

Thanks @DisappointedReader 😊

Mistakes were made... Squatting in the bushes.

Poo-collections may vary

Nothing in the observer?

Marking my place,thank you!

Are there any new developments

I am reading the free copy of TSP - thanks for the link whoever posted it! The thing I find most unpalatable is the pooing without burying it -WTAF!!! I live in the Lake District and before lockdown it was very rare to see human poo. Sadly after lockdown there was human poo aplenty accompanied by used loo paper. It’s utterly filthy and wild campers, especially, should know better.

I can’t see anything in the Obs - still, on tenterhooks to know what’s coming eventually. The list of possibilities is hardly a short one.

Thanks, @DisappointedReader! Thread 9, oh my days……

More tech issues at the Observer, clicking on their cover story returns 'page not found', bit of a disaster.

😬

https://www.penguin.co.uk/discover/articles/raynor-winn-interview-salt-path-wild-silence-author

While we’re waiting to see what the Observer is up to, I’m just going to revisit the Landlines timeline someone referred to recently.

Now that I’ve finished listening to it, there’s an outright discrepancy between the narrative in the book and the narrative in the interview (link above) . In the book, they “just” set off to do Cape Wrath - and there’s such a big thing made of Moth’s wish to then keep going - first with the trip to the Borders, then again with the Pennine Way, then again with the long walk home. Each time it’s presented as a flash of inspiration - a “What if we went a bit further….?” Harold Fry kind of thing. Yet this interview says “This spring, they will walk the length of the UK – from the top of Scotland back to their new home”.
Regardless of all other accusations, if she can misrepresent one narrative (essentially the whole narrative of a book) then how are we meant to have faith in her capacity to be unflinchingly honest?

Thanks for Thread 9 @DisappointedReader – that's another 2 coasters to add to our set!

Plus sage advice on staying on track, and not getting derailed. The truth is indeed out there. No doubt it will be stranger than "non-fiction".

Looking forward to today's Observer. 📰 🐢

Yeah, I noticed this too. RW's instagram does the same. I.e there is a picture of them reaching the end of each trail and a question posed of "what next?", "could we?" etc. Perhaps that's where the idea came from when writing the book.

Not sure whether this has been shared, from The Spectator (I know ...) a couple of days ago. https://archive.ph/KloAx No new news, just a perspective in the context of travel writing from Matthew Parris. Titled 'Why you should never trust a travel writer'.

Thanks for no 9 @DisappointedReader
Just leaving my armoury here for now.
Will be back later.