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.

Busy doing nothing – 2024/29
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Busy doing nothing This week: Busy doing nothing; Floof update This week’s blog is going to be short, sharp and to the point! I have done very little outside because of the heat and my inside work has not been … Read More

Straight to intensive care – 2024/28
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Straight to intensive care This week: It is all about your attitude; I have been Floofed; Straight to intensive care; We are being cooked in this part of the Mediterranean at the moment. Almost every day this week I have … Read More

I don’t know what I’m doing – 2024/27
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I don’t know what I’m doing This week: I don’t know what I’m doing; First Floof update; Saving seeds; Is it an Etruscan?; The weather has been hot again all week, with more hot weather to come. I am irrigating … Read More

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