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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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.

I do not know a farmer who would drown a puppy when he could shove it on the board in the local agricultural merchants and get at least fifty quid for it. If it's a terrier and it can walk - it can kill rats.

Never mind the 😂 reaction,we need a 🤢 reaction for prose like this 😭😭

No running off without paying. No wild poos without a trowel. No taking your own teabags into cafés. No glaring jealously at other diners.

Seriously? No point going away then!

It's pissed down today so I have not been out telling tourists 'you've been salted' or scratching 'jam first' onto random car bonnets.

The dog has switched to her street name, so when the tourists walk on the footpath behind the fence I shout ' shut it you slag' at the all bark and fluff canine, standing behind me.

Is Simon Armitage even really real or just a mythical being at this point? I have definitely written his name more than my own in the last fortnight so much so I'm starting to wonder if I should just call myself Simon Armitage now and cut out the middle man.

So they forget vital meds in TSP & now early on the trek in Landlines they forget/run out of painkillers. Surely, surely you’d pack vast amounts especially after having an issue before!

Has anyone read /got a share code for the article that was in the times today?

😂😂😂.
Come on OP, no flagging.
Would a Fudge bar help lift your spirits?

Yes, this struck me when I read the book. I actually watched a ladybird larva on my rose bush once and it was voracious eating the aphids, literally sucking them dry in seconds 😮🤢
They certainly don’t hatch from eggs into adult ladybirds, whatever RaySal’s lifetime of living on the land has taught her.

Ooh! I’ve never had quoted words on a thread! Deeply honoured and thank you DisappointedReader 💐

Big debate here as the sump oil and despair bucket has no handle.

<quietly adds Tesco 1/2 tog sleeping bag and charity shop jumpers to rucksack>
And sunscreen for all the noses you will lose.

Oh, Simon Armitage (whose SWCP book I’m reading) has just encountered, somewhere between Padstow and Constantine Bay, a sleeping elderly man on a bench,with all his belongings around him in plastic bags and holdalls— is this the same man the Walkers met? Moth gave him some of their food and he tells them to fuck off?

And purely coincidently that's where I'm heading tomorrow. Shall I do some sleuthing?

His bench, acc SA, is about a mile before Harlyn Bay, and near a gate with ‘I hate Snobs. Posh Scum’ written in marker on the top bar. but sadly, if he was elderly and homeless in 2013, it’s probably unlikely he’s still alive and on the path.

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I've just put the text from this page into the poetry generating chat thing and these were a few of the limericks it came up with this time: -

Local Colour
The rain's come and pissed on the scene,
No scrawlings of jam to be seen.
No tourists were salted,
No bonnet defaulted—
The street dog's now acting obscene.

Dog Barks & Slang
When strangers walk by on the trail,
My dog, though all fluff, likes to wail.
So I shout at her loud,
And pretend I'm so proud—
“Shut it, you slag!” sets the tale.

Simon the Myth
Is Armitage real? Who can say?
He floats like a ghost on the Way.
So often I write
His name late at night—
Might as well be him, any old way.

Packing Logic
They’ve trekked through both hunger and pain,
Forgot meds and then did it again!
One trek, a mistake—
But two? For Pete’s sake!
Just pack for the wind and the rain!

Forum Feelings
Thread Ten and I’m weary and cursed,
The Wyn-Walk-Wynn talk is the worst.
Despair fills my soul,
Where’s that sump oil bowl?
Just drink it and see who goes first.

A Sleeping Encounter
Old man on a bench, deep in nap,
With bags in a plastic-wrap trap.
Did Moth give him food?
Was he gruff or just rude?
Tomorrow I'll sleuth with my map.

And knowing you're heading off on what must surely be the most shop-sparse trail in the entire UK. From Cape Wrath the first shop you'd get to is at Kinlochbervie, at least a full days walk away, mostly across bog, with limited opening hours. Next shop would be days after that unless taking a massive detour...or getting a taxi.

LDW correspondent

😂😂😂I can't cope. Too funny.

BTW, if anyone notices I've loved a post, it now means I'm laughing (either controllably or otherwise).

Are the books a parady? The writing is so sixth-formerish.

'These hands never worked on the land til they bled, never saw the dawn on countless morns' etc

It's hard to believe she was published. I wonder who she/he was shagging?

I can’t see this in Times today?

I think the terrible tale of woe about losing their home and the "miracle cure" for a terminal disease meant the quality of the writing was sadly overlooked.

Evening all, count me in for the thread charabanc outing, along with the Rovering Wild Pooing Correspondent (the RWPC)! @DisappointedReader, you are going above and beyond contemplating thread 10 🤣

picking up today’s discussion, I agree with the point upthread that Raymoth got lucky with this book. I agree that they threw loads of money generating ideas at the wall and this was the one which finally worked. But then the past caught up. More Fbk comments from locals seem to suggest that what tipped the Hemmings over into talking was the film being shown in the cinema round the corner from their old premises. I can imagine seeing a massive poster praising someone you know is a thief would be upsetting.

shout out too to @Catwith69lives for being our Twitter/X correspondent 🥰

It's the one from last week about visiting the French property

I will be camping near Polruan and the cider farm later this week.
My assignments could be:

1. Search for Haye Farm cider in the local shops. See if I can taste that history.
2. Try to spot any journalists poking around / peering into chapel windows.
3. Count how many people we pass on the coast path say anything profound about animals or berries (I haven't read the book but I understand there is waxing lyrical about blackberries and tortoises etc).
4. Try scones both jam first and cream first. Being neither Devonian nor Cornwallian but Somersetian I have no skin in the game. I have always gone cream first on the assumption that it resembles butter more closely, but if there's butter as well that would complicate it...

Field trip! <raises hand>