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.

The first snow of winter – 2024/51
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The first snow of winter This week: Losing heat; Picking potatoes; The Winter Solstice; A week from now Christmas will be over and two weeks from now we will be into 2025! Are we ready yet? I hear a resounding … Read More

Organising a RAID – 2024/50
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Organising a RAID This week: Organising a RAID; The end of Autumn; Santa came early to Dol; Reimagining history; We had one dry day this week! During six wet days, I have recorded 71mm of rain. This means two things. … Read More

It’s a jungle out there – 2024/49
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It’s a jungle out there This week: It’s a jungle out there; There are always jobs to do; Kitchen woes; The sun is at its lowest point in the sky and only touches my gardens and orchards between 08:50 and … Read More

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