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.

Ideas over coffee – 2026/11
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Ideas over coffee This week: Orchid hunting; Ideas over coffee; The window seat; It has been a bit of a “plant” week, this week. I had a Callistemon bush which has been in a large ceramic planter for years. It … Read More

Felling trees – 2026/10
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Felling trees This week: Felling trees; Flat tyres; Seat work; It is the end of the first week of March. So the year is moving forwards very quickly. Spring has well and truly arrived here in Dol. We have had … Read More

Building Owl boxes – 2026/09
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Building Owl boxes This week: Somewhere to sit; Building Owl boxes; For the first time in four months, we have had a completely dry and sunny week. The changes around the gardens and orchards have been dramatic. Suddenly in a … Read More

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