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.

Where do I start? – 2026/31
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Where do I start? This week: Our Patron Saint; Where do I start?; The heat continues; Today is the 1st August, which as all true believers know, is “Yorkshire Day” . So as is my usual practice on this auspicious … Read More

Now just waiting – 2026/30
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Now just waiting This week: Now just waiting; Plum support; Temperatures have dropped 10 degrees from where we were a week ago. For the first time in weeks, on Friday night I didn’t need a recirculating fan to keep the … Read More

Doing the job twice – 2026/29
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Doing the job twice This week: Doing the job twice; Trees of choice; We received our rain this week, only just over 7mm, but very welcome, none the less. However the bad news is that all my efforts last week, … Read More

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