Bankers in Bloom

Once again, Leeds Ahead provided us with volunteers and the opportunity to tackle a big job. 
This time it was the Holy Spirit garden on Tempest Road.  We were greeted by Bob asking us if we could climb ladders.
After a chorus of "NO!", we decided to tackle the ivy - which is trying to get in the windows - by cutting it off from the roots.  No photos cos it is a bit anti-gardening to destroy that beautiful shiny green and Linda, who was wielding the camera, likes ivy.
I don't and so picked up the loppers with glee.  Loppers, not secuters, to give me a bit of distance from the spiders that lived in there.

Here are some of the volunteers and the grey stone band at the bottom of the wall is where the ivy was -and is no more.

Now the ground needs some plants to deter the weeds, and the ivy which will probably take to moving horizontally as well as vertically - what is the point of it?