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.

Near enough is the best you’ll get – 2023/19
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Orchids are rare, delicate and beautiful flowers. May is the time of year to go and look, but not touch them.

Dining room table surgery – 2023/18
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Dining room table surgery This week: Surgery on the dining room table; But what to do?; Blue marble; Fruits and flowers; Inside outside; I was having coffee with friends in Vrboska on Thursday when I heard a solitary Golden Oriole … Read More

On the subject of weeds – 2023/17
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The Tasselled Hyacinth, whose bulb is considered to be a delicacy in some countries

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