Thread 11: 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
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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 - 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 ten 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.

No saltiness. Keep to the path.

Does stolen fudge taste better?

I hope you don't mind suggestions - it was a very comprehensive, yet concise, list thanks.

For reference, it may be worth adding 6 April 2020 - the establishment of the current company:

FOUR HARES LTD overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK

Not sure if I shared these comments before from a neuropsychologist on another thread about Moth's CBD symptoms.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002975l.In In case anyone has missed this .

Thanks @mycatismyworld! Just editing the link as I think it ran on into your next sentence - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002975l

Same 😂

Anyone else getting Facebook ads for courses at Eden? 😂

future threads

Pass the smelling salts.

There's a lot that's fuzzy in the early years where they met as teenagers, then got married at 24 / 26, then sold a house in Staffordshire (what were they earning and how, to be able to buy a house at that point?) before they moved to Wales. While that's before they entered the public eye, it does suggest they may have had a leg up with house buying and or jobs in the family business.

In TWS SalRay says they bought a house before they were married- so presumably around 1985. Neither had been to uni and at least she was living at home so I imagine they saved up a deposit and got a mortgage; but houses were a more achievable price back then. If they’re both quite handy they could conceivably have bought a doer-upper and made a decent profit when they sold it.

No, but I am getting Cornwall produce hampers on here!

🤣🤣

Not at all! I'm just aware it's quite long already! 😬

@AlertCat you mention ‘neither had been to uni’, but there’s a possibility that Moth might have, as an article from a previous thread suggests he had a botany degree (before the horticulture degree he starts in TSP).

Can anyone link to the podcast please?

Yes please,can't find it anywhere

Podcast link is the second post of the thread.

@AnnaQuayInTheUk and @mycatismyworld - https://observer.co.uk/listen/the-slow-newscast/the-real-salt-path-1 (this is the latest podcast from today).

I propose that anyone quoting the entirety of the superlative chronology post by FurryHappyKittens be sent on a round-the-world walk with only a tarp and a single selection box-sized fudge x

I second that! 😂😂😂😂😂

It is in the first post on this thread after the OP.

It's linked in the 2nd post on this new thread just below the opening post

No more quoting of the superb timeline please - makes for too much scrolling!

Oh lol just saw I wrote ‘September 2029’ for the Iceland walk 😄 now that would definitely be dodgy haha.

That’s true, but I thought (think) he probably didn’t have a botany degree because

• he is also a master plasterer
• he went to the same college as Sally- she says sixth form , he is 2 years older so 20 when she says they met, to me this is more suggestive of day release for plastering apprenticeship than anything else
• if he went to uni after this, I don’t see how they could buy a house when she says they did because he’d’ve been a student and it seems unlikely they could get a mortgage
• they had kids not long after getting married (she says about their Scotland trip that the next one they would have a baby backpack with them) so ditto on the mortgage/earnings, how would they have managed if he were studying and she was looking after a baby?
• they both seem to have form for not being 100% truthful (TW lies to Bill that he has been told not to plan beyond Christmas) so saying you have a botany degree when another Tim Walker does seems within the realms of possible
• apparently botany degrees and graduates are very rare, someone mentioned on the last thread

so all in all, I think he probably didn’t go to uni before the Plymouth course!

This was Mrs Thatcher's 'boom' before the 'bust'. They may have just got in before the prices went soaring:

The biggest five-year increase occurred between 1985 to 1990, where average house prices increased by 109%, reaching £58,250. But what’s really interesting, is that the following five years saw the only dip in average house prices, falling 5% to £55,437 on average in 1995.
Average UK house prices: 1980 - 2050 - Good Move™

goodmove.co.uk/blog/average-uk-house-prices-1980-2050/

Thanks for the new thread, very impressed by the sleuthing and admin work that goes on in these threads!