John North
@johnnorthwrites.bsky.social
Tea and haiku...
Based in Cumbria UK.
Poetry & links at johnnorthwrites.blogspot.com
Co-owner at theherbfarm.co.uk
Based in Cumbria UK.
Poetry & links at johnnorthwrites.blogspot.com
Co-owner at theherbfarm.co.uk
Wrong all wrong.
November 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Wrong all wrong.
My wife and I's life and dream and work is our home at The Herb Farm. We're now actually taking pre-orders for teas and herbal teas at theherbfarm.co.uk
Orders will start going out after Monday December 1st, when we officially "launch".
Living in a state of thankfulness 🙏
Orders will start going out after Monday December 1st, when we officially "launch".
Living in a state of thankfulness 🙏
November 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
My wife and I's life and dream and work is our home at The Herb Farm. We're now actually taking pre-orders for teas and herbal teas at theherbfarm.co.uk
Orders will start going out after Monday December 1st, when we officially "launch".
Living in a state of thankfulness 🙏
Orders will start going out after Monday December 1st, when we officially "launch".
Living in a state of thankfulness 🙏
AGREEED. Loverly mulch on here at The Herb Farm, Ivegill!
November 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
AGREEED. Loverly mulch on here at The Herb Farm, Ivegill!
We’re a small family in Cumbria, bringing her grandparents’ herb farm back to life. If you would like to read and share our story, we’d be so grateful.
theherbfarm.co.uk/page/ourhist...
theherbfarm.co.uk/page/ourhist...
November 28, 2025 at 12:57 AM
We’re a small family in Cumbria, bringing her grandparents’ herb farm back to life. If you would like to read and share our story, we’d be so grateful.
theherbfarm.co.uk/page/ourhist...
theherbfarm.co.uk/page/ourhist...
Happy #tankagiving
世の中は
常にもがもな
渚こぐ
海士の小舟の
綱手かなしも
If only the world
were constant —
like a fisherman’s boat
pulling its rope
along the quiet shore.
Minamoto no Sanetomo (1192–1219), Shōgun. Poet.
世の中は
常にもがもな
渚こぐ
海士の小舟の
綱手かなしも
If only the world
were constant —
like a fisherman’s boat
pulling its rope
along the quiet shore.
Minamoto no Sanetomo (1192–1219), Shōgun. Poet.
November 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Happy #tankagiving
世の中は
常にもがもな
渚こぐ
海士の小舟の
綱手かなしも
If only the world
were constant —
like a fisherman’s boat
pulling its rope
along the quiet shore.
Minamoto no Sanetomo (1192–1219), Shōgun. Poet.
世の中は
常にもがもな
渚こぐ
海士の小舟の
綱手かなしも
If only the world
were constant —
like a fisherman’s boat
pulling its rope
along the quiet shore.
Minamoto no Sanetomo (1192–1219), Shōgun. Poet.
We're so grateful to have the support of Rachel's family, and hope to restore this place to something like the way it is so fondly remembered. The most encouraging word we have had so far was from Rachel's mother, who told us that Harry and Rosemary, the original Herb Farmers, would be proud of us.
November 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
We're so grateful to have the support of Rachel's family, and hope to restore this place to something like the way it is so fondly remembered. The most encouraging word we have had so far was from Rachel's mother, who told us that Harry and Rosemary, the original Herb Farmers, would be proud of us.
My wife and I are re-establishing a fondly remembered herb garden at our home in Cumbria. These old buildings - traditional long narrow cottage and barn - have been here several centuries, but our connection to the place goes back to Rachel's grandparents who founded The Herb Farm in the late 1940s.
November 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
My wife and I are re-establishing a fondly remembered herb garden at our home in Cumbria. These old buildings - traditional long narrow cottage and barn - have been here several centuries, but our connection to the place goes back to Rachel's grandparents who founded The Herb Farm in the late 1940s.
up in the hills
letting all of life's worries
and stress and anxiety
just fall away
#Cumbria #LakeDistrict #HeatherMoorland #LichenLove #UplandFlora #UKWildlife #NatureInFocus
letting all of life's worries
and stress and anxiety
just fall away
#Cumbria #LakeDistrict #HeatherMoorland #LichenLove #UplandFlora #UKWildlife #NatureInFocus
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
up in the hills
letting all of life's worries
and stress and anxiety
just fall away
#Cumbria #LakeDistrict #HeatherMoorland #LichenLove #UplandFlora #UKWildlife #NatureInFocus
letting all of life's worries
and stress and anxiety
just fall away
#Cumbria #LakeDistrict #HeatherMoorland #LichenLove #UplandFlora #UKWildlife #NatureInFocus
November 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The rummage continues. Found two more of my poems in a December 2013 copy of Kaffeeklatsch, which the excellent Joey Connolly (now Director of @faberbooks.bsky.social Academy) launched while we were at University of @manchester.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The rummage continues. Found two more of my poems in a December 2013 copy of Kaffeeklatsch, which the excellent Joey Connolly (now Director of @faberbooks.bsky.social Academy) launched while we were at University of @manchester.ac.uk
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Wonderfully fragrant Viburnum farreri Stearn in November sunset light, The Herb Farm garden
#viburnum #wintergarden #garden #plants #flowers #botanical #cumbria
#viburnum #wintergarden #garden #plants #flowers #botanical #cumbria
November 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Wonderfully fragrant Viburnum farreri Stearn in November sunset light, The Herb Farm garden
#viburnum #wintergarden #garden #plants #flowers #botanical #cumbria
#viburnum #wintergarden #garden #plants #flowers #botanical #cumbria
Completely forgot I wrote this poem about Gore Point on The Wash in Norfolk. Found it in @poetrybusiness.bsky.social 's The North No. 53 Autumn 2014.
I have other poems in other copies of The North... if only I could find them too...
I have other poems in other copies of The North... if only I could find them too...
November 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Completely forgot I wrote this poem about Gore Point on The Wash in Norfolk. Found it in @poetrybusiness.bsky.social 's The North No. 53 Autumn 2014.
I have other poems in other copies of The North... if only I could find them too...
I have other poems in other copies of The North... if only I could find them too...
Made these #startrek iPhone lock and home screens to make my phone look like a tricorder. Yup. Thought I'd share them in case you want to send them to the Trekkies in your lives. Happy Sunday! 🖖
November 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Made these #startrek iPhone lock and home screens to make my phone look like a tricorder. Yup. Thought I'd share them in case you want to send them to the Trekkies in your lives. Happy Sunday! 🖖
November 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Thank you. I was remembering a little friend I made in May
September 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Thank you. I was remembering a little friend I made in May
Garden path of sweet evening chimney smoke;
inside, mingling steam, simmering
chicken soup on the woodstove top.
The days we need healing,
we at least know we're living.
#poetry #micropoetry
inside, mingling steam, simmering
chicken soup on the woodstove top.
The days we need healing,
we at least know we're living.
#poetry #micropoetry
August 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Garden path of sweet evening chimney smoke;
inside, mingling steam, simmering
chicken soup on the woodstove top.
The days we need healing,
we at least know we're living.
#poetry #micropoetry
inside, mingling steam, simmering
chicken soup on the woodstove top.
The days we need healing,
we at least know we're living.
#poetry #micropoetry
August 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
#SycamoreGap in autumn
i. /
For all our academic
talk of literary geography
and landscape art;
for all our well-put-together
metaphors of season -
now just a gap
in the heart.
#micropoetry #poetry
i. /
For all our academic
talk of literary geography
and landscape art;
for all our well-put-together
metaphors of season -
now just a gap
in the heart.
#micropoetry #poetry
August 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM
#SycamoreGap in autumn
i. /
For all our academic
talk of literary geography
and landscape art;
for all our well-put-together
metaphors of season -
now just a gap
in the heart.
#micropoetry #poetry
i. /
For all our academic
talk of literary geography
and landscape art;
for all our well-put-together
metaphors of season -
now just a gap
in the heart.
#micropoetry #poetry
