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Thread 10: 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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DisappointedReader · 23/07/2025 21:20

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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New posters welcome. It would be helpful to read at least the four Observer items above before posting. There are currently 10 items on The Observer website The real Salt Path | The Observer

To all - No saltiness. Keep to the path. 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 - from experience - this will only encourage them back to the threads. We have done amazingly well together for nine very interesting, very serious and very silly threads so far. I can't be here as much as I'd like so all help with keeping our discussion walking along in a healthy and civil fashion is very welcome.

Keep calm and eat fudge.

Thank you

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FurryHappyKittens · 28/07/2025 16:36

That's hilarious!!! 😂

FurryHappyKittens · 28/07/2025 16:39

First item on my feed right now was tonight's event, so I've booked for the Zoom.

FightingTemeraire · 28/07/2025 16:52

Choux · 28/07/2025 16:23

@ThatFluentHedgehog any hostile agents will be far more interested in Chloe than me. So…. I am wearing a black and white zebra print dress. (If you don’t come and say hello now I will be crushed and insecure so you have to!)

If you both disappear from the thread forever, we will have to conclude that either the hostile agents got to you (and presumably anyone else wearing zebra print), or that you met, got on like a house on fire, and went to the pub, and from thence to a long-distance path. We will only know what happened when a book emerges in a year or two called A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Berners Street.

Aspanielstolemysanity · 28/07/2025 17:22

Wow!! That's a genius move Grin

DisappointedReader · 28/07/2025 17:33

I am not contemplating any restorative hikes as have just graduated to shuffling to the bathroom on a frame. I'll get there

Thread member down! No thread member left behind! Now come on @Uricon2 that just won't do. I expect you to buy a tent on eBay, pitch it next to your hospital bed, purchase some fudge or whatever confectionery is available from the vending machines or trolley, tie your hospital gown tightly with a piece of string to protect your modesty, then find your nearest long distance path hospital corridor and get walking! You'll soon experience a miracle cure and then we can all collaborate on writing a bestselling book and film. Our people will talk to your people shortly.

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Debsthegardener · 28/07/2025 17:43

I’m online for the event - am hoping it will be cameras off as I plan to do a bit of housework whilst listening 😁. See y’all later 👋

FurryHappyKittens · 28/07/2025 17:46

purchase some fudge

Purchase?

That's not in the spirit of TSP!

DisappointedReader · 28/07/2025 17:47

This is genius. It is like one of those 'and then everybody clapped' moments and it is a little difficult to believe it is true.

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Catwith69lives · 28/07/2025 17:50

For those joining via Zoom, maybe in the spirit of the occasion (a la Major Ingram's accomplice from Who Wants to Be a Millionaire fame/notoriety) maybe a discrete (or exaggerated v loud) cough prior to online questions will serve as a means of identification to other MNers!

DisappointedReader · 28/07/2025 17:51

FurryHappyKittens · 28/07/2025 17:46

purchase some fudge

Purchase?

That's not in the spirit of TSP!

Mistakes were made...

Correction:
Ram raid the vending machine and tea trolley with your walking frame @Uricon2

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Redheadedstepchild · 28/07/2025 17:53

@Uricon2 Aren't you a French correspondent? Sorry to hear about your hospital stay and get well soon!

If you are the French correspondent did your hospital go for the traditional breakfast menu of two packets of biscottes, butter pat and jam, a natural yoghurt with a sachet of sugar and a bowl of tepid water to mix another little package of chicorée coffee or hot chocolate powder in?

Choux · 28/07/2025 17:55

if the Onserver room is not lead lined or too far away from the windows I might manage a live post or two.

Yes any Mumsnetters speaking should either cough or use a code word to identify themselves. What could our code word be?

Choux · 28/07/2025 17:55

if the Onserver room is not lead lined or too far away from the windows I might manage a live post or two.

Yes any Mumsnetters speaking should either cough or use a code word to identify themselves. What could our code word be?

Choux · 28/07/2025 17:56

if the Onserver room is not lead lined or too far away from the windows I might manage a live post or two.

Yes any Mumsnetters speaking should either cough or use a code word to identify themselves. What could our code word be?

Choux · 28/07/2025 17:56

Posting from the Elizabeth line - sorry!

Choux · 28/07/2025 17:56

Posting from the Elizabeth line - sorry!

Choux · 28/07/2025 17:57

Am clearly overexcited!

Peladon · 28/07/2025 18:23

Online - where are the Simon Amitage cardboard cutout and the zebra lady?

DisappointedReader · 28/07/2025 18:23

Debsthegardener · 28/07/2025 17:43

I’m online for the event - am hoping it will be cameras off as I plan to do a bit of housework whilst listening 😁. See y’all later 👋

Is housework your cover word for gangstering?

I’m online for the event - am hoping it will be cameras off as I plan to do a bit of gangstering whilst listening 😁. See y’all later 👋

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mauvishagain · 28/07/2025 18:25

I'm waiting in the zoom wings!

Choux · 28/07/2025 18:26

It’s busy. Am on the back row glugging a beer. They should have provided cider!

i’m zebra

DisappointedReader · 28/07/2025 18:26

Good luck to our correspondents on the ground and online. Be careful out there.

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Peladon · 28/07/2025 18:26

Don't see HumanKindness and ChateauMargaux either.

mauvishagain · 28/07/2025 18:27

Hello to anyone who's on the screen! I can't see any SA cutouts

mauvishagain · 28/07/2025 18:28

One of the online audience is someone called Gillian Atkinson, but I misread that as Gillian Anderson 😂

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