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.

Does my head in, but nonetheless, I've been through the hiking one, where they are about as unimpressed as posters here - and then one lone voice comes on to defend them. Eerie.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UKhiking/comments/1lt3m8e/the_salt_path_controversy/

I found Reddit tricky to navigate at first, but thanks to this I've become more adept and I'm finding it REALLY helpful for all sorts of things. It's almost become my go to for some stuff. And I also realise that some subReddits have their own Wikis and FAQs!

It's a good place I'm finding.

I agree.

As a strategy it only works if pps give it their direct attention.

Enough already.

Some of the comments on the UK hiking subreddit are about experiencing prejudice about being older, and not believing it in the book.

I find it difficult to believe that it's ever a thing because of the age of many walkers on footpaths and trails etc. Loads are a lot older than the Walkers were in 2013. To experience prejudice for being in your fifties, when you're probably the average age seems unlikely.

With a figure of 20%, I'm not sure it's been derailing, rather boosting interest as the thread flagged.

afternoon all, have been out walking a section of the Slate Path with the Wild Pooing Correspondent (otherwise known as DDog) and a friend who has seen the film. Part of our conversation did indeed touch on the unveiling. Friend thought the film was ok but had clearly been filmed only in the section between Ilfracombe and Minehead; according to her there weren't any scenes in Newquay or other busy areas. She said this made for some amusing bits where the sea shifted from being on the right (as it would be walking in the direction they were going) to being on their left when it was representing another bit of the path. We were chatting about how artistic licence like that doesn't bother either of us, but presenting as 100% factually accurate a tale which is very far from that is something completely different.

One thing I have always observed by scolders of MN threads (and to some extent, Tattle) is that it's always where it's largely women talking that attracts the wiggings and descriptions like 'mumsy'. Other fora such as are typically populated largely by men don't attract this sort of comment, despite them being much more plainspeaking and robust.

Anyway, even though I don't have children, you should imagine all my posts clothed in velour and adorned by a frilly apron. I'd hate to let the side down otherwise.

PS @Bauds1 hello and welcome! I took the reference to 29 July to mean the next episode of the Obs podcast that would feature Chloe H. I wasn't necessarily expecting anything new to be revealed then, if that makes sense.

Has the film got a distribution deal in the US yet? I guess that was the big hope for recouping money and Oscar nominations. I don't think any amount of crisis PR is going to make that salvageable. The film will possibly do well on a streaming site with people wanting to watch it out of curiosity.

I'm also thinking that if I were GA or JI, and I've been taken in the Winn/Walkers, and felt embarrassed or betrayed, I might be quite interested in reprising my role in one of those high-quality dramatised exposé limited series that the major streaming services have been producing lately. Then the film just becomes a prequel - 'that's what they tried to sell, but here's the true story'. I'd have thought portraying the same role as somewhat heroic then decidedly villainous would be quite satisfying professionally. Not that I know anything about it whatsoever!

Quite. It gives an extra layer of… I don’t know what the word is. An in joke between actor and audience. Just like when Colin Firth played the part of Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones when the Bridget Jones character talks in the book about Darcy from Pride and Prejudice who is of course played by Colin Firth.

That still leaves 80% of interest without the derailing. I think the thread can cope with that and would be better for it. There are bound to be quieter times.

Afternoon all, have been out walking a section of the Slate Path with the Wild Pooing Correspondent

Sterling work out in the field from our rovering reporter.

😂😂

Hello everyone .. I've just joined because your resident saboteuse told us not to. I don't like being told what is toxic and what to do. Hope that's ok?!

Welcome aboard, Brandy!

I would rather walk the Brandy Path than the Salt Path. Where is it?

That's the spirit!

I have a long standing dislike of TSP book due to how it portrays locals and tourists along the route.

My kids, like everyone else's, work in the tourist facing jobs.
In our particular stretch the majority of adults work in non tourist areas - WFH, working away, farming, specialist niche manufacturing, there's all sorts of stuff going on.

No local teens need a tourist matchmaking. A tourist trying this would get a hard gen alpha stare. In Clovelly they almost certainly went to school together, hang out at various pubs, young farmers and drive around the county in modied cars.
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We've just had the 'nearly dead and newly weds down along with the private school kids and just in this last week it's really opened up to everyone and I mean everyone.
DH & DS walked a stretch of the coastal path today and apparently everyone and their dog was out before the rain came in. A couple of any age or even any gender mix would not be remarkable.

I really, really dislike the way the Walker/Winns portray us as naive yokels judging homelessness. If you're in a cafe buying a cup of tea in August, if my kid doesn't recognise you from school or after-school activities or the other 11 months of the year, you are probably a tourist. And as a tourist, you probably won't be there tomorrow let alone next week.

And tourists often behave badly because they are unlikely to be witnessed by work colleagues or their normal community. Most places now have pay first policies due to the amount of runaways. Shop lifting certainly goes up. And the amount of dog poo just left on paths increases noticeably.

I just want someone to write a really nice book about how lovely the place is. How much we appreciate living here and how we celebrate the place. And how cheerful our teens are working huge amounts of hours during the summer.

The thread is attracting a great deal of outside attention.

Tell me about it, I can't even leave the house for all the reporters camped out on my front drive.

Oh the plus side Cadbury should really be sending me. In a strictly official capacity of course us some free Fudge bars. We've given them better publicity than they've had in years.

It is my joke as I have been prompted to join because of this thread. I have walked the SW Coast Path all my life (although of course we didn't call it that) - I never understood why there was a book about it called Salt Path. As some of the earlier posts have said, this was not a salt path - it was certainly a brandy path!

You out wrecking tonight @TheBrandyPath ?thought I'd stick some lights up, although we're more likely to catch people looking for a party than ships carrying cargo.

@swpath looks like two N Devonians have sailed into this harbour at the same time!

Just marking place while watching Tour de France.

On the subject of the Winns being discriminated by age, I also don’t buy this. I am a keen walker, got into it at uni and had a large group of friends out hiking most weekends.

We are all early 50’s now and still walk/camp regularly. I would say we are not unusual, our various offspring are mostly independent which means more time again for leisure activities in this age group.

I'm so sorry you're struggling - it sounds like you have a huge amount of resilience 💐

And that's really interesting insight - maybe SW just assumed soup kitchens are everywhere and she'd get away with that fabrication? Or amended the hub to make it evoke more pathos.

I know others might say little fibs are harmless, but it seem like there are dozens. Some more criminal than others, but of course now it makes you question everything.

Was it a total scam scheme?

Placemarking

Hey Brandy.

We've got some Fudge bars somewhere if you'd like one?