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.

A week as a tourist – 2024/35
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A week as a tourist This week: A week as a tourist; Home maintenance; A letter to the Chief; The heat continues! Usually by the start of September, our summer heat has begun to mellow. But not this year… Today … Read More

I don’t like August – 2024/34
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I don’t like August This week: It’s been hot again; Clearing up in the polytunnel; I don’t like August; Just as forecast, we had much needed rain on Sunday night and during Monday. A total of 26 mm or 26 … Read More

Three tee-shirts a day – 2024/33
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Three tee-shirts every day This week: Fire season; Three tee-shirts every day; Garden musings; Website security; Not what I expected; We have had baking heat again, all this week. For five consecutive days the temperature in my polytunnel has exceeded … Read More

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