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.

We’re half way through the year – 2024/26
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We’re half way through the year This week: Animal crackers; Our vets; It’s all about the grasses; This week has been hot again. As I passed the weather station console a few minutes ago, it was recording 48.7°C inside the … Read More

Leaking profusely from every pore – 2024/25
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Leaking profusely from every pore This week: Temperature changes over time; Leaking profusely from every pore; Black start; This has not been one of my better weeks for work. It has simply been too hot to do very much outside. … Read More

Dead bodies are everywhere – 2024/24
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Dead bodies are everywhere This week: The biggest in Europe; Dead bodies are everywhere; Arachnids on patrol; There is a clear blue sky this afternoon, with not a cloud in sight. The sun is strong, although the temperature is still … Read More

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