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.

Smoke in the air – 2026/37
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Smoke in the air This week: My own Mango festival; Fire on Brač; I have just been up the hill, immediately behind my home, to take a photograph of the Pyrocumulus cloud which is over the island of Brač, just … Read More

Growing Kangaroos from seed – 2026/36
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Growing Kangaroos from seed This week: Killed with kindness; Am I being stupid?; I’m a good dictator; This week has been another scorcher! I recorded 37°C one afternoon, far too hot to do anything productive outside. Today it is “only” … Read More

Is it a mean or an average? – 2026/35
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Is it a mean or an average? This week: Is it a mean or an average?; As the nights draw in; I was once described as a “wordsmith”, which I definitely took as a compliment, especially as it came from … Read More

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