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.

Life begins over again – 2025/30
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Life begins over again This week: Life begins over again; Desperate measures; Here we are again, another Saturday and with the 30th blog of 2025. The year is racing past at an incredible speed! The day time temperatures have reached … Read More

Winter crops – 2025/29
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Winter crops This week: Winter crops; The kitchen garden; This week has been hot again. Not quite as hot as the start of the month, but as I write this at Saturday tea-time, my thermometer is reading 33.9°C. So definitely … Read More

Kids being obstreperous! – 2025/28
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Kids being obstreperous! This week: Stopping leaks; The kids are being obstreperous this morning!; Making my bed; At long last, the heat dome has given way to more normal summer temperatures here in Dol. So instead of 37°C, we are … Read More

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