Thread 12: 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 ...
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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
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No saltiness. Keep to the path.
Will our life-size cardboard cut-out Simon Armitage keep his head?
NB Timeline coming in the first posts of this thread for reference.

All of that is very feasible & fair, however acc to JI the Beowulf recitation is the very first time he can focus on words on a page & read at all for some time. May all still fit as you say.

I find it remarkable that all this about not reading until St Ives wasn’t in the book. It would make it all so much more dramatic- unless TW thought it up much later on.

This is fantastic!

So Sally's father was a farm stockman.

Official confirmation that he wasn't a tenant farmer at all.

Brilliant work, @CocteauTwin

I don't remember if this has been discussed yet, but
Was the very useful coincidence of SW losing her job shortly after the Hemmings' bookkeeper retired really a coincidence?
I assume the retirement of an employee in a local business is hardly a secret, and Martin Hemmings' trustful nature and rather chaotic way of organizing his business was probably well known.
So what if SW saw an opportunity, pretended to have just lost her job to get a foot into the door of a business where it was rather easy to get away with embezzlement?

(Sorry if this has been talked about before - I just remember a suggestion she might have lost her hotel job for stealing there as well.)

I found this but don't have a subscription

That's fine thanks - there are these patterns, quite clearly.

There is a pattern of interviewers arriving bright eyed and bushy tailed and expecting to meet Raymoth only to discover there has been 'a last minute change of plan' and Moth is unavailable (gone shopping/gone for a walk/feeling under the weather etc etc).

When he has appeared in an interview with SW (I think the HeraldScotland was one) when asked what he remembered about the seminal week when they were evicted from the farm in Wales and he was diagnosed with CBD he confesses to the fact that it was all rather hazy and he isn't really sure what happened...

JD Vance would hate it on here

Glad to hear it! Let's keep those cats coming!
Signed DisappointedReaderwithacatandotheranimals

I’ve followed these threads but not posted before.

It will be interesting if a credible journalist questions whether they completed the walks when they said they did.

Surely their bank statements will prove where they were and when. If ‘false allegations’ are made it will be simple for them to refute them. If they don’t it’ll be pretty damning.

The simplest way to refute the most 'heinous' of the allegations (the 2013 CBD diagnosis being fabricated) would be to furnish a copy of the July and October 2013 neurologist's consultation letters confirming the CBD diagnosis as described in TSP.

4 weeks on from the Observer allegations, these letters have been conspicuous by their absence....

Hold on to your horses!

Looks like some new stuff will be coming out tomorrow - www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk/#google_vignette

Archive link here - archive.ph/X0noC

That’s a good point, but they could just refuse to hand over their bank statements, on confidentiality grounds.

Yes, great find which uncovers another lie. A stockman is an employee not the farmer.

Of course! Good thinking @SereneLilac . That is very likely the answer - so the 'missing' year will actually have been much of the same, ie studying and living on Moth's grant/loan as you'd then have got one, and possibly some benefits too, while on an Access year. It's a bit too mundane to fit into their preferred triumphs v disasters narrative though.

Thanks @Fandango52 Wonder what these broken promises are?

Perhaps promises made by SW & TW - more witness/first hand accounts from people they've lied to

I'm glad The Observer have found space for it this week!

From what CH said at the news event the other day, I think it's very likely there will
be a piece by her about certain discrepancies in TSP (et al!) concerning the walk(s). I guess we'll find out tomorrow.

Will that include your own discoveries?

Moth could have the limited arm swing due to an old shoulder injury or arthritis. I knew a plasterer who had to have shoulder surgery on both shoulders after years of work.

No comment (mistakes were made). But no, not tomorrow.

So more (potentially) to come!

And now for something completely different:

Instead of a Salted Moth - a Peppered Moth

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