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.

Breaking and entering – 2026/43
Breaking and entering – 2026/43
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Breaking and entering This week: ; ; It’s Saturday afternoon once again. It seems to come around so quickly! Although the time is only 4pm, I have the lights on because it is so dark. We are surrounded by storm … Read More

Crumbling into a cobbler – 2026/42
Crumbling into a cobbler – 2026/42
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Crumbling into a cobbler This week: This week: Crumbling into a cobbler; Winter beans; Saturday has rolled around again. As the days shorten, so the weeks seem to pass more quickly as we head towards our winter. It is only … Read More

Precipitation within sight – 2026/41
Precipitation within sight – 2026/41
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Precipitation within sight This week: Hydroponic seeds; Precipitation within sight; I’ve not had an especially good week this week. On Tuesday I was in Split again for a hospital appointment. No problem there, just routine but it is a very … Read More

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