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.

All ready for Christmas – 2024/48
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All ready for Christmas This week: A run ashore; All ready for Christmas; Some more open heart surgery; You CAN teach an old cat new tricks; The weather has changed to something more normal for the winter here in Dol. … Read More

The place where humans fear to tread! – 2024/47
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The place where humans fear to tread! This week: Where humans fear to tread!; Doing other jobs; The weather is decidedly chilly!; The seasons are a mess; The wood stove has been lit for over a week now and as … Read More

Just one of 5 reasons – 2024/45
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Just one of 5 reasons This week: An awful eyesore; Dismantling not demolition; Just one of 5 reasons; Cool winter nights; Here we are once again on Saturday afternoon! They seem to come around with frightful regularity… My oldest feline … Read More

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