Life in a Dol house BLOG

This Blog began in 2014 as a way to keep in touch with family and friends. Gradually more people wanted to read the Blog and so it went from being a weekly email, to an on-line page.

Over time we used different platforms until in January 2019 when we moved to our own dedicated pages. Past years blogs will be added, but it will take time…


Life in a Dol house is about the daily trials and tribulations, successes and failures and the mundane minutia of modernising an old Croatian farm house and smallholding. This is on a beautiful Adriatic island, and is about our making it productive again.

Each week you are invited to join us in our adventures on a small plot of land in this quiet backwater. Here, where the pace of life is still regulated by the passage of the sun across the sky each day and the season of the year.

Below are our most recent Blogs. Just click on any link to open a new page.

Then the rain came – 2026/0*
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Then the rain came This week: Then the rain came again; Making repairs; On Monday there was significant snow on the Dinaric Alps as I went to the shops. The highest point in the mountains is Sveti Jure (St. George) … Read More

Shrinking violets – 2026/07
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Shrinking violets This week: In the Pacific…; Shrinking violets; At the risk of sounding like a broken record, we have had another wet week. The cool, grey, wet and miserable days are getting very wearing! This week we have had … Read More

Awful weather – 2026/06
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Awful weather This week: Awful weather; A very wet Friday; With two fine days this week, once again, I have not done much in the garden or orchards. As the rain teemed down, I felt very sorry for my newly … Read More

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