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.

Our weird weather – 2025/16
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Our weird weather This week: Orchid flowers; Our weird weather; When the sun shines…; This has been another dismal week of weather. The bad weather didn’t come as a surprise. I could see last weekend that I wasn’t going to … Read More

Sometimes things just go wrong – 2025/15
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Sometimes things just go wrong This week: Sometimes things just go wrong; All dried out; Island supermarkets; The weather has been much better this week. We have had a lot of sunshine, however because of the finger of cold which … Read More

The Spring has sprung – 2025/14
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The Spring has sprung This week: The Spring has sprung; Wood working; The sun has mostly shone this week and I have been weeding in the citrus orchard. There is a particular type of grass that I have which has … Read More

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