It looks gruesome! What about two people trying to hold a sheet around it and hitting it off.
I'm removing it with my Father in Law and I am not beating it off in front of him
! Seriously though what I think I will do is take a spade up with us and just prise it away from the wall/roof, the issue is getting it through the hatch!
The good thing is that they never come back to the same nest which hopefully might put your wife's mind at ease? To be stung twice must be pretty unnerving though for her.
Yeah it hasn't been great, albeit strangely its actually been a bit of a relief in some ways as she had never been stung before (at 40 which was quite some going) and as she can be quite allergic to things she had always worried about anaphylactic shock, so at least it has proven she doesn't have that!
As long as it's empty I'd break it up.
I suspect it will come down to that, albeit I may ask him to do the breaking. Not sure yet, when I was up there there were a couple of the little pricks still loitering about, very very dopey and easily dispatched by the spray) so may be worth leaving a week or two till it gets even colder, if the wife will tolerate it knowing its there now!
