About Us

We’re just an average couple with two daughters, who have moved form the inner Sydney suburb of St Peters to a rural 1 acre block in the NSW town of Yass.

Why the move? Well, we have always talked about it then we just decided that the inner city was changing and not to our liking (too many yuppies moving in and destroying the atmosphere), so we started looking for a town we liked and that we could survive in (as both of us are office workers) and Yass has Canberra near by.

We were traveling to Yass for a number of years prior to the move as my dad occasionally went into respite care here, and everytime we came back we thought “yes we can make a go of it in Yass”. So in Sept 2007 we moved in (well not exactly). My partner and daughters are here, but I am in Sydney Tues, wed, Thurs and working from Yass (remotely) Monday and Friday.

We plan to live a more environmentally aware life and reduce our carbon footprint and of course write about it.

Also a bit more about me is that I like bikes (of the non motorised form) I am VP of Bicycle NSW and Pres of BikeSydney (I will be handing that one over shortly), and bleieve most people drive too much.

Anyway I hope you like out blog One Green Acre

Andrew, Lee-Ann, Lynsey and Alyssa

And here are some random photos from the last few years

This was Reclaim the Street (an illegal protest where we take over the road) in King St, Newtown (1998) and my eldest daughter was 3 (she is the one under the Anarchist symbol in the green dress

This is behind our house in St Peters and a few of our kids friends – Lynsey and Alyssa are the book ends, and the friends are Zoe and Milly.

Lee-Ann and I at a restaurant