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.

I’m easily frustrated! – 2025/44
I’m easily frustrated! – 2025/44
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I’m easily frustrated! This week: I’m easily frustrated; Engineering solutions; Weather statistics; I hate the week after the autumnal clock change. I’ve not slept well and the felines have been complaining because their feeding times (and mine) are all muxed … Read More

Part one finished – 2025/43
Part one finished – 2025/43
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Part one finished This week: Part one finished; A lecture with questions; It’s a trade off; It has been another busy week here in Dol, with a mixed bag of weather. An afternoon shower early in the week passed very … Read More

Another Klotski puzzle – 2025/42
Another Klotski puzzle – 2025/42
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Another Klotski puzzle This week: Sunday therapy; Digging in; Another Klotski puzzle; Parcels have been arriving almost every day this week. Some tools have arrived, a book and also various parts for the new computer. However I am still waiting … Read More

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