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.

Preparing olives for the table – 2024/44
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Preparing olives for the table This week: Preparing olives for the table; Planting seeds; Watching the weather; Every week seems to be a busy week and this one has been no exception. I had to go to Grad Hvar to … Read More

Monday is Maintenance day – 2024/43
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Monday is Maintenance day This week: Monday is Maintenance day; Measure five times but cut once; A success to report; Some early Ho, Ho, Hoe; The year is passing with frightening speed. In eight weeks it will be Christmas and … Read More

Time for an Autumn clean-up – 2024/42
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Time for an Autumn clean-up This week: Time for an Autumn clean-up; Celestial events; Once again I am struggling to make sense of the data my weather station is producing. After a month of below average temperatures, once again temperatures … Read More

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