We have this beautiful bougainvillea which climbs up the side of the wall up to my window. Mum told me a few weeks ago that we had bee-hive growing amongst the branches.

We live pretty much in peace with nature here at home. Especially with things such as bird’s nests, we’d let nature run its course and leave it alone. But in this case, a growing beehive was not safe, especially with Jules over for baby sitting sometimes.

The gardeners say they’ve done this before and volunteered to smoke the bees and clear the hive. So here’s the pictorial sequence on events taken from inside the house.