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.

It’s winter! – 2026/02
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It’s winter! This week: It’s winter!; Burning wood; In the orchards; Today is cold again. That raw, damp cold we get here in Dol in winter. I have two felines on my knee and others dotted around, anywhere where it … Read More

Window of opportunity – 2026/01
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Window of opportunity This week: The weather report; A short window of opportunity; What’s growing?; Here we are on the 3rd January 2026. Christmas is over and New Year’s Day is but a dim memory. I can still wish all … Read More

Mid winter – 2025/51
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Mid winter This week: Health update; Mid winter; Orchard plants; The end of another year; This weeks blog is going to be short. Much shorter than the usual eight to ten minutes read, for the simple reason that I have … Read More

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