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.

The never ending story – 2026/25
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The never ending story This week: Your weekly dose of cats; Last one on the boat; My Achilles heel…; The never ending story; The weather in Dol is beginning to heat up. We are still below the average for the … Read More

Out hunting at dusk – 2026/24
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Out hunting at dusk This week: Out hunting at dusk; Routine maintenance; We have had another good week of weather this week. There was a useful 4mm of rain on Wednesday which has reduced the need for irrigation during the … Read More

Cutting back Pistachios – 2026/26
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Cutting back Pistachios This week: Meteorological summer; Cutting back Pistachios; Another of my pet peeves (besides things breaking) is when software is changed and you are not told. I have spent time tonight trying to recover my blog formatting and … Read More

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