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.

We’re having Pups! – 2025/02
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We’re having Pups! This week: Pruning is well under way; We’re having Pups!; It is the end of another week. I really do not know where time goes, however it passes with unrelenting speed. We have had a damp week, … Read More

Between Alchemy and a Dark art – 2025/01
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Between Alchemy and a Dark art This week: Our strange winter weather; Between Alchemy and a Dark art; More on weather and climate; ​Well, I’ve survived the first week of 2025. To celebrate New Year’s Day, I was out in … Read More

Vorsprung durch Technik! – 2024/52
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Vorsprung durch Technik! This week: Vorsprung durch Technik!; Everything in the propagator is lovely; One man and his dog went to mow a meadow; ​Over coffee with friends this morning I was saying that it doesn’t feel like a Saturday. … Read More

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