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.

Fixing pictures to the wall – 2025/07
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Fixing pictures to the wall This week: Off to Split again; Fixing pictures to the wall; It is raining heavily as I write this on Saturday afternoon. It is cold too, only 8°C outside. That sums up this week and … Read More

Pruning fruit trees with a chainsaw – 2025/06
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Pruning fruit trees with a chainsaw This week: Pruning fruit trees with a chainsaw; ; I’m struggling to fathom where times goes to. Already it is Saturday afternoon again and with it comes finishing this week’s blog. Last weekend, I … Read More

Not to be balked at – 2025/05
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Not to be balked at This week: Not to be balked at; Construction next week; Weather update; I hope you remembered to say “White Rabbits” as soon as you awoke this morning? Today is the first of February and folk … Read More

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