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.

Can we do what we need to do? – 2026/34
Can we do what we need to do? – 2026/34
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Master This week: Can we do what we need to do?; Going back in time; It has been another baking hot week here in Dol this week. The temperature has not dropped below 21°C at any point during the week, … Read More

Just odds and ends – 2026/33
Just odds and ends – 2026/33
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Just odds and ends This week: Just odds and ends; Recording memories; Once again I awoke this week to a sepia haze on the northern horizon and the faint but distinct smell of smoke. Burning materials produce different but distinct … Read More

Decision made – 2026/32
Decision made – 2026/32
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Decision made This week: Tropical Nights analysis; And for my next project; Decision made; This Saturday afternoon, it is currently 37.2°C in the shade and the only sounds from outside are the Cicadas. The heat this week has been punishing. … Read More

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