Banking
I got my card working. It appears that my bank classifies my account as a `cheque' account for ATM purposes. I'm sure that I'd pressed that button before, but the chances are another part of my neural machinery corrected my request and made me press `Savings', instead, because that's what I always press.

I now have access to more than $11.90 in cash, and the coffee is still very good.

That's not a weed, it's a feature
I'm still surprised at the large untapped and tasty food supplies we have growing around us. A large number of tasty and nutritious plants are hardy and quick-growing. So hardy and quick-growing that our society regularly sprays them with herbicides, roots them up from the ground, or otherwise tries to eliminate their existance.

It's hard to go far in Melbourne without encountering blackberry nightshade, a small plant related to tomatoes with clusters of small, black, sweet berries and edible (when cooked) leaves. The trainline near my house regularly grows clumps of salsify (aka `oyster plant') which has tasty young leaves, and a delicious and thick root similar in size to a large carrot. I'm drinking a tea made form it now, but I've also had it in stir-fried with noodles, and it is positively delicious. Unfortuanately, the train lines seem to be sprayed regularly, making them unsuitable for foraging. :( This is a shame, as I've spotted a relative of the bush banana growing along the tracks as well.

The fat-hen in my backyard is going to seed, and has attracted large numbers of small, seed-eating birds. This marvelous plant grew by itself, received no care, watering or attention, regularly had large chunks pulled off to be eaten in soups or omlettes, and eventually managed to grow taller than the house with never a single pest. The neighbours chopped the top off it from over the fence because they found it ugly. I wouldn't have minded that too much if they had eaten their harvest rather than left it.

On reflection I'm very happy with my garden. It gets either ignored or eaten, and yet it continues to grow more yummies without any input from myself. I don't even need to plant seedlings, as most of the plants are self-seeded.

For those interested in further reading on happy gardens and yummy weeds, I'd recommend Permaculture One by Bill Mollison et al, and Edible Plants of Australia and New Zealand by Tim Low.