Jennifer Blackburn

Welcome to Functional Northern — real life, badly organised and laughed at afterwards.

I'm Jennifer Blackburn: author, English teacher, Manchester-born Lanzarote-dweller, chronic overthinker and living proof that you don't actually need to know what you're doing to keep doing it.

Functional Northern began with my books and has somehow escaped into the wider world. Here you'll find humour, stories, observations, book-related nonsense, English language, life in Lanzarote, marriage, menopause, dieting, teaching, adulthood, occasional chaos and whatever else seemed like a good idea at the time.
Nothing here is particularly polished. That's rather the point.

**Truth first. Funny second. Coffee… immediately** 

If life goes beautifully, marvellous.
If it doesn't — we can laugh about the thing.

Welcome aboard.
We're still functioning somehow. ❤️

🌐 Books, news & more: FunctionalNorthern.com
✉️ Business & media enquiries: jen@functionalnorthern.com