Thread 26 : To feel disappointed - and disgusted and vindicated now too - after reading this in The Observer about the author and her husband from The Salt Path book and film?

[DisappointedReader]

NO POSTS PLEASE UNTIL THREAD 25 IS FULL

Please see the OP of Thread 25 for all the links to The Observer's reporting and podcast series, our threads one to 24 and so on.

After 25,000 posts there are still new things to discuss:
BBC Sounds - Secrets of the Salt Path - Available Episodes
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New posters joining us in the genuine spirit of our civil discourse are welcome. It would be helpful to get the background from at least some of the Observer exposé items before posting. The Observer's excellent podcast series The Walkers (link in Thread 25) covers most things.
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, especially where details are unclear or still emerging. Remember, even Hollywood rabbits attract the odd flea: please do not engage with drive-by scolders 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. For over 8 months we have done amazingly well together for 25 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 our usual reasonable and respectful fashion is very welcome.

As ever, as we embark on our 26th thread riding the community charabanc, keep to the path, no saltiness, eat fudge and drink cider.

NO POSTS PLEASE UNTIL THREAD 25 IS FULL: www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5485730-thread-25-to-feel-disappointed-and-disgusted-and-vindicated-now-too-after-reading-this-in-the-observer-about-the-author-and-her-husband-from-the-salt-path-book-and-film?

Well that’s good at least! That’s brilliant news. I’m sure she’s counting too.

Perhaps 'the stories they tell without words' was a subtle hint.

“stories they tell without words” don’t give her any ideas @SaltyTea ! I don’t want them making a coffee table book of her insta photos. Sally Walker’s denial is bordering on insanity. They should be quietly going away, shutting the SM feeds down and buggering off. These followers’ posts of hearts and single word exclamations remind me of dandelion seeds in a slight breeze.

I suspect that Sal thinks that 'shutting up and going away' would be seen as an admission of guilt. She is working away to try to appear unaffected by all the negative advertising so she can breezily dismiss it as jealous people (family etc) who, for their own (very mysterious and utterly inexplicable to anyone) reasons want to see her destroyed.

And maybe she still has hopes for brushing it all off so she can have people fawning over OWH. That video seemed to indicate that it had been pushed to 2028 publication, which, I suspect, means they're going to keep pushing the date back until the fuss dies down.

I agree with you. It’s ridiculous and exasperating though because she is guilty, they both are. It’s been proven, there’s evidence. This business of “nothing has changed” is an insult. We know they’re guilty of fabricating a whole load of stuff for monetary gain and so do they. I do think that if nothing else is going to happen with the way the books are labelled (shame on Penguin) the least they can do is go away and live quietly somewhere without posting about it and testing the water every so often with these IG feeds and they can stop their lifetime of scamming all and sundry as well. That’s all these IG images serve to do, continue the scam.
On winter hill could be available to digitally download rather than waste precious trees.

The trouble is that if she just carries on, ignores all accusations and never speaks about it, then everyone who is shouting about all the thefts and fraud and fake illnesses will just be grey-rocked out of existence. She's just giving us all the Paddington hard stare and pretending that there's no case to answer. And there's a danger it will work. Just don't acknowledge, and blank anyone who tries to question you - and keep taking the money.

Even her publishers won't acknowledge any wrong doing. What else can we do? That's why I think it's important to keep threads like this running, so that anyone who Googles TSP stands a chance of coming upon it and finding out what REALLY went on.

I wondered yesterday what would happen if, in the brief time the Instagram comments were open, someone had posted something like 'You have been in hiding for 10 months now Sally. When are you and Tim going to agree to be interviewed about the serious allegations against you both?'

Perhaps someone could very quickly try it next time?

It’ll have to be as quick and as concise as possible before she slams that window down. I bet the pop up tent on the floor is full of chopped off fingertips!

Maybe someone did and that is what prompted RW to close them? Surely someone said something she didn't like.

If she never has to read or hear any negativity towards her, she can persuade herself that it doesn't exist.

But I bet she's had someone else going through all the comments sections on all the stories about TSP. I wonder if she's made them filter out all the negative stuff and only read the positive comments? If someone has carefully curated what she's heard about herself it might account for her seeming blase approach these days. She thinks everyone is on her side?

It’s deluded, isn’t it? It takes positive affirmations to a new level.

So if ever we want a life-makeover or an app which filters out reality we can download the Sally Walker version 😀

Came back and found all these posts on this thread - thanks for keeping this open @DisappointedReader - I miss you all and the fun and comments on here.

So Sal has not just dipped her toe in, this time, she went for a paddle. Hope it is still far too cold! Awful for the person who shared about her homelessness, posted by @YourMoneyforFrothingandYourChipsforFree . So much damage to so many different people.

Hi Brandy! I agree. They’ve been using many people or causes for their advantage and not shown a scrap of remorse. In both rebuttals that have gone public, the apologies are thin and don’t account for any of the wrong doings such as this. They seem to think that their lies are okay if by proxy something good happened - such as awareness of CBD and a spotlight on homelessness. Not so in my opinion. They seem to really believe this fantasy of theirs which is quite scary I think, quite unhinged.

Nice little article about UK coastal paths, including the SWCP:
https://thebritishtravellist.substack.com/p/the-best-coastal-walks-in-the-uk

In case this hasn't been posted before, "Raynor" takes questions from an audience (starting at 37 minutes in). Pretty bland, but a couple of amswers are more interesting with the benefit of hindsight:

I do wish I could watch that video Peladon… but I fail at the first fence… as soon as “Raynor” starts gasping and fidgeting as she begins to recount the day she met “Moth”.

Yes, it was all the usual script.

But I was surprised that she took audience questions. I kept hoping that there would be an interesting one. Someone asked whether they had been contacted by anyone they described in their books, and they mentioned the Australians but didn't go into details.

Bearing in mind the fuss she made when pressed to tell someone 'Moth's real name at the beginning, I feel she would just have ignored any questions she didn't like and said 'I'm not telling you' and moved on to the next questioner.

Fair enough. I will try harder. At least I don’t have to mute the bullshit detector… it broke!

Fortunately, I had listened to this one before .... and many others 😱but I may have felt obliged out of loyalty to you all. As I said before, I miss all of you but absence does not make me fonder of the Walkers. In fact, quite the opposite.

Comments open if anyone has anything to ask/say...

Aaand comments are closed again. There were only seven or eight there when I looked, but the first one did ask something, perfectly civilly, about whether she was still going to publish OWH and would it account for her 'skullduggery'? (And was accused of trolling by another follower. The others were the usual fangirl/fanboying.)

Not sure how long the comments stayed open, and whether it's absence of mind or a taking of the online temperature?

All these IG posts about Monty…(with the usual lashings of anthropomorphism). Must feel like a safe topic for her: post cute, cuddly animals and everyone will love me again.

Although for all we know Monty is imaginary, has been dead for years, or was hired from Pet Central Casting as a cute prop.

I mean, it wouldn't particularly surprise me...