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

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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 have some concern that your pigeonnier may be in need of renovation and that our visit may include some forced labour...

Absolutely. Can't have too many Armitage's.

😀

It has a roof and can sleep 4 - in beds!

We can if they take up too many seats in the charabanc on our investigative tour through Wales, Staffordshire, Leicestershire, Cornwall and France, not forgetting Devon for the scone comparisons.

It is disconcerting to see our honorary thread member Simon like that. I didn't know such a thing existed. I am just imagining it, sorry him, propped up in a seat on the charabanc, leaning against a bench or pub bar on the SWCP, peeping out of a Cornish café, Melton Mowbray pork pie shop, Welsh cake bakers or French pigeonnier.

If anyone buys a Simon, I think we must be told and photographic evidence provided.

I was thinking more that when we're all walking along the SWCP whoever's at the front has the SA cutout so he would lead us like a guiding star. If in doubt just follow Simon (which could be considered great life advice or stalking. Depending on your perspective).

No worries about seats on the charabanc as he'll just obligingly fold down.
The 30,000 Fudge bars might need their own one though.

How many house lotteries, emergency family loans and SWCP walks did you need to renovate it?

It is tempting me. I might ask Santa for one as well as the elusive alpaca.

I like the sound of all that except that folding Simon down sounds a little disrespectful.

Surely the "real" Simon will be with us? I mean, one of us must certainly be able to find a doppelganger to join us, who is at least as good a resemblance as Moth was?

True. He he might disapprove and look cross but I'm not sure how we'd tell the difference between that and his normal resting face 😐. Sorry Simon if your reading this.

Yes, I'm still a little suspicious too. If we turn up and the 'roof and 4 beds' is a portacabin on a building site, I would never hear the last of it from this lot and Simon would be speechless.

But then how would we know who the real Simon is? It'd all turn a bit "I'm Spartacus".

Two Simons, you say? A cardboard cut out and a doppelganger? I think we could even go for three Simons. You can't have too many Simons. I'm sure the real one would come if we allowed him to write about it and filled his sock with fudge.

I'd hope the real Simon would be obvious by his effortless, walkless, glide across the land - the true ethereal being that he is. Also, he'd never smile.

and filled his sock with fudge.

😳 I'm sure in some customs in the world that means your now married.

Is that you, Simon?

Shhh

Love your work but for Christs sake cheer up!

As instructed by our most disappointed of readers...

That makes him sound either dead or like a miracle-worker.

He says at the end of his SWCP book that he’s never doing another long distance walk, but he also carefully registers having left both the Pennine Way and the SWCP deliberately unfinished (well, he only did the northern part of the SWCP, but continued on to the Scilly Isles, but wasn’t able to walk to the final island, as he’d planned, and in his Walking Home book, he chooses not to do the final bit into Edale, but jist goes home ) so maybe he’d be up for a bit of revisiting.

Or if someone reunited him with his home-made holly stick that got left behind en route.

Only Simon Armitage knows.

I wonder how they deliver the life size cut out of SA, he maybe used to being folded.
And with 30 day returns...

I wonder how they deliver the life size cut out of SA

It's one of life's greatest mysteries.