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Laura Sorvala ✏️
@laurasorvala.bsky.social
Illustrator and graphic recorder with a knack for translating ideas into delightful visuals. Live event scribe, idea illustrator, comic artist, research collaborator. www.laurasorvala.com

When not drawing: Dog mum, DnD player, allotment beginner. She/her.
And here we are, things growing well. Peas keep cropping! #AllotmentLife
July 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Failures: didn't support a water barrel well enough and the weight of it cracked two panels of glass on my greenhouse 🫠 then the hoop frames for one bed kept breaking.
May 27, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Drew some peculiar fish, of course
May 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
And today cleared weeds around this rose, put in an old washing up tub as a pond and started on a wattle dead hedge kind of thing. I’ll plant some comfrey and nasturtiums here, maybe a sweet pea trellis too
May 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Lots of progress and feels so good to see it! Maris pipers are in, two raised beds ready for butternut squash (need to build a strong arch trellis) and spinach to go in the shade underneath. Started to cover the square for sweetcorn too.
May 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Surprises include a rhubarb and a blueberry(!)
May 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Living my allotment core era - next to pea canes and netting to protect the plants from pigeons
May 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I have a functioning greenhouse! Been fixing glass panels and have two types of cordon tomato growing here: Galina cherry and Gardeners Ecstasy (both from Real Seeds)
May 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Reposted by Laura Sorvala ✏️
"The survey reveals a sector that is underfunded, under resourced and under the radar. Women’s and girls’ organisations face considerable pressures, often disproportionately so, compared with the wider charity sector": @probonoecon.bsky.social. www.probonoeconomics.com/underfunded-...
Underfunded, under resourced and under the radar: The state of the women and girls’ social sector
Women and girls’ charities are under intense strain — facing rising need and shrinking resources, even beyond the challenges experienced by the wider social sector. Read our new research by Dr Beth Ki...
www.probonoeconomics.com
April 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Reposted by Laura Sorvala ✏️
As @zoejardiniere.bsky.social says here, there's a long history of singling out ethnic groups as scapegoats for crime. These efforts are always based in lies, with nothing but racism at their heart.
All these league tables will do is fuel violence and hatred.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/dog-wh...
Exclusive: Ministers Accused Of 'Dog Whistle Politics' Over Plan To Publish Nationalities Of Foreign Criminals
Labour have been accused of "feeding further division, dehumanisation and prejudice in our communities".
buff.ly
April 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM