Thread 9: 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 ...

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.

If all it takes to call your novel your 'first' is to change your name, then I'm going to try it. I'm 30 books in under one name so I reckon I ought to be in with a shout with my new 'first novel'.

And EVERY SINGLE TIME Simon Armitage is mentioned, I picture Simon Farnaby. I know they are two separate people, but I think Moth being mistaken for Simon Farnaby is probably more likely.

and eat so nothing too energetic.

See if you can survive on:
Pork pies
25p pasties
Noodles
Fudge

No running off without paying. No wild poos without a trowel. No taking your own teabags into cafés. No glaring jealously at other diners. Ok? The reputation of these threads and of Mumsnet is at stake.

PS Can we all come please? Call it a field trip?

So is it culturally sensitive to change your cream/jam priorities when you cross the Tamar?

Spindleweed · Today 18:31
So is it culturally sensitive to change your cream/jam priorities when you cross the Tamar?

It is way more complicated ....rather like @TonstantWeader's welshcakes!

@ FarmerPilesofJam

'Sump oil and despair' 😂

That should be the title of the next instalment.

Absolutely!

I always take my own teabags into cafes in case they don't have decaf, but rarely need to use them. My dear departed MIL always took teabags in her handbag because no one ever made it strong enough for her.
I've made curry, packed the noodles, quiche not pasties, added fudge to the shopping list. No trowel, there's a shower block, and I'll pay on arrival.
😀

Next thread title:

Thread 10: AIBU to feel despair at the thought of creating a 10th thread and to want to drink sump oil rather than seeing, hearing, talking or reading about the Walker-Winn-Wyns ever again?

Turns out the source was from this interview (and no mention of ratting - my mistake - which perhaps makes it weirder)

https://www.toniachristie.de/interviews-2021/raynor-winn-the-salt-path/

How did your dog Monty come into your life?

The way I talk about dogs and dogwalkers in The Salt Path you wouldn’t think I would ever have a dog, would you? [we both laugh]. We went to this Farm for some reason and the owner had this little tiny puppy in a cage in the back of his shed. He had sold all the others, they were twice the size of him and nobody wanted him because he’s got wonky legs, funny little bent legs. His back legs are perfect, but his front legs look like little Cabriole table legs. [we both laugh] And the owner said if he’s not gone by Friday he’s in a bucket, and he was going to drown him. And we said – no you can’t do that! So we went home with a puppy. We hadn’t even considered having a dog or a puppy, living in that one bedroom apartment in Polruan with no garden and we thought – what have we done? He’s turned out to be the most surprising little addition to our family. He’s very small and with his wonky legs he couldn’t come on this big walk with us this year, cause it would have been too far for him. He’s a very happy little dog who plays endless football with his tennis balls.

So clever farmer who manipulated them into taking him!

Apologies if this has already been posted but I loved some of the descriptions of TSP from a 2020 Mumsnet thread:

'Like sharing a long car journey with an embittered aging hippy.'

'I found myself constantly wanting to shout at the couple for just being so damn self centred and rude!'

'I gave up after 50 pages...I found the couple feckless.'

'Relentlessly mean-minded about most people they came across'

These are the quotes Penguin should put on the back of the book!

He’s very small and with his wonky legs he couldn’t come on this big walk with us this year, cause it would have been too far for him.

Wonder who looks after him when they're walking then? Given that the book tells us they have few people willing to help them out and they hate paying for services.

Don’t forget adding rhubarb lollies, pasties and the odd shared sausage sandwich to your daily diet! And sorry to go there, but considering their diet, I’m surprised so much wild pooing was involved - not much roughage in that sort of food…

When they walked the four-month walk in Landlines he was looked after by their son. Mind you, the son agreed to one month and they were gone four, having decided to walk home from the north of Scotland, if we’re to believe the narrative of the book. (Though she told a journalist in advance that they were always going to walk the length of the country, despite the fact that she depicts Moth as very unwell at the start of the book…)

I was just coming on to say ah, the old 'if you don't take it I'll have to drown/shoot it' canny farmers' sales trick!

I haven't read it, I haven't seen it, I haven't commented on any threads... Yet here, sponsored by Mumsnet - I give you...! Honestly? Mumsnet, you are paying these people?!
I usually get protein powder ads or generic shift my fat arse ads. Imagine my surprise.

I take back the sponsored and give you promoted instead.
Huh.

TheBuffetInspector · Today 19:00

I haven't read it, I haven't seen it, I haven't commented on any threads... Yet here, sponsored by Mumsnet - I give you...! Honestly? Mumsnet, you are paying these people?!

It has been so effectively promoted by Penguin. I feel shocked - thanks for telling us.

It is sounding a better thread outing all the time!

Does anyone else see a similarities between the Walkers and Keith and Candice Marie in the brilliant " Nuts in May".?
I think Sally sounds like Candice Marie but also has Keith's temperament.

I think someone said previously that the son looked after it, while raising the point that Landlines was told as an unplanned, let's see where we end up, journey.

At least they remembered to take a shovel.

I feel like I’ve been letting the side down with my lack of posting - so apologies for that.
I do have one thing I need to get off my chest. The phrase “You’ve been salted” - which apparently a Cornish artist in TSP said had happened to them, in some kind of meaningful encounter. I’m confident no one down here would be caught dead saying anything quite so smug and nauseating, being ‘salted’ is just not a thing unless you’re a fish. I’m still raging about it seven years after reading the book - I probably need to let it go…

@mycatismyworld
Tim and Sally could definitely take a leaf out of Keith and Candace-Marie's book!
The agony and ecstasy of Nuts in May

It does sound a bit twee, doesn’t it.

It also irritated me when RW replicates the speech that people along the path said to them - it makes them sound like yokels! As did the frequency of her and TW saying ‘nothing better to do!’ when deciding if they wanted to carry on doing the walk, as a running joke that wears thinner and thinner the more it comes up.