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.

Fireside woes – 2026/05
Fireside woes – 2026/05
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Fireside woes This week: Fireside woes; Winter wood; Water problems; We are well into early spring, although the weather has not been particularly spring like. Still, this week there have been three sunny days. This is a significant improvement on … Read More

Open gates – 2026/04
Open gates – 2026/04
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Open gates This week: Open gates; Cyclone Harry; Starting a new project; I have an extremely damp feline on my knee as I write this. This week has been wet and miserable, all apart from one day. It is just … Read More

So it begins again – 2026/03
So it begins again – 2026/03
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So it begins again This week: Hiding in plain sight; And so it begins again; We have had much better weather this week. The cold Arctic air which has covered most of Europe since Christmas, has moved away to the … Read More

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