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.

Hatching Dragon eggs – 2023/31
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Hatching Dragon eggs This week: Hatching Dragon eggs; Listening in on wild life; Using statistics; Adding cover; I happened to be in the Citrus orchard one morning this week, just at the right time as early sunshine caught the seed … Read More

No more Nightingale song – 2023/3*
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No more Nightingale song This week: Unremarkable deaths; Just two brothers; Raid No. 49; Death and destruction on New Bridge Road; No more Nightingale song; The Owls have it; Trouble with seeds; It’s fire season again; What have I been … Read More

The white heat of summer – 2023/28
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The white heat of summer This week: The white heat of summer; Fire season again; This is going to be another short blog this week. I seem to keep saying that recently! Not because I have done nothing all week, … Read More

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