Sifting

Listening to Wilbur Smith on the new speakers, although there is the high adventure element in these stories I was more inspired by the period DIY features of the short series that starts with "Birds of Prey" and determined to take my ash sieving to a slightly more advanced level. I sift out the charcoal left in the ash and burn it in the shop stove, but Wilbur was describing the usefulness of ash for soap making and having seen a load of bottles of old cooking oil in the kitchen I thought I would sieve down to a fine ash and make some lye water to combine with that in an attempt at soap making some time.