Can it really be as simple as that?

Candle making is something we have toyed with in the past. We bought some wick in a long length and a mould a number of years ago, when we saw how much wax went unburnt on some of the candles we had bought. The fatter the candle the more waste there was, or so it seemed. So we did make an attempt at remelting itand making one. It worked ok but I always wanted to make some really good quality ones with beeswax.

Today, Jonathan came back from the field with an armful of honeycomb (minus the honey!) that he had noticed in the hedge. It seemed bizarre that it should be in such an exposed place...we are not sure if it was built there by bees, although Jonathan did say it looked as though it had, but how else would it have come to BEE there? (Sorry, couldn't resist it that time!)
It was difficult to pull out and it therefore arrived at our house in pieces, although one of the edges looked very rounded so definitely not dumped out of a private hive or something.

It was obviously just the empty cells but they felt very waxy, so we decided that we would try to melt it down and see if we could make a candle with it.
At this point I would upload all the pictures we took of the process, but I know that having got this far, they would all end up at the beginning of my post and in the wrong order, so I will need to do that under a different heading later on. Bah!