No, not that kind of bank but the bank at the front of the cottage.  Now fully cleared (with the help of the chainsaw) we await a wooden wall to be built and in the meantime I am pulling the ivy off it.  Years and years of ivy off it and I am doing it a three trugs full a day, any more and I should go crazy.  Most of the difficulty come from the fact it is at such a steep angle.  I am, however, releasing all sorts of things such as wild primroses, ferns, bluebells and foxgloves so without much effort it will give quite a show on its own.  I am putting all sorts of things to one side to plant up when it is full cleared and then the party can begin.