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.

Not to be balked at – 2025/05
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Not to be balked at This week: Not to be balked at; Construction next week; Weather update; I hope you remembered to say “White Rabbits” as soon as you awoke this morning? Today is the first of February and folk … Read More

Sometimes the mind boggles! – 2025/04
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Sometimes the mind boggles! This week: Sometimes the mind boggles!; This week for a variety of reasons, my missive is going to be more like a monologue than a Blog. We have had a damp, humid, rainy, mild week. Not … Read More

Why won’t it start? – 2025/03
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Why won’t it start? This week: The spring has sprung; Spring projects; Why won’t it start?; It has been a cold week this week, not withstanding that, I have been doing bits and pieces outside. The sun is noticably higher, … Read More

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