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.

Some missteps this week – 2024/41
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Some missteps this week This week: The Orchard view; They’re biting again!; Some missteps; Metamorphosing; This week has been a “milestone” week. My car has passed 150,000km. These are not all my kilometres though, as I bought it with 143,000 … Read More

Four rats down – 2024/40
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Four rats down This week: Beguiled by plants; More plantings; Released back to the wild; Island life is nice, but it also has its frustrations. For example, trying to buy anything even slightly out of the ordinary. Last weekend I … Read More

Bodgeit, Dodgeit & Scarper – 2024/39
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Bodgeit, Dodgeit & Scarper This week: Autumnal flowers; Working in the Polytunnel: Bodgeit, dodgeit and Scarper; Well, I have made it through the week to another Saturday afternoon. At the moment we have 10/10ths cloud cover and the forecast is … Read More

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