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.

All in the name of love – 2024/20
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All in the name of love This week: The machinery Konoba; Ready, steady, move; All in the name of love; It’s Saturday afternoon again, the wind has dropped and all I can hear through my study windows is bird song. … Read More

I’m almost there! – 2024/19
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I’m almost there! This week: I’m almost there!; Trouble in the polytunnel; This week has been somewhat mundane. What have I been doing? Not a lot really, but I have spent the whole week doing it! Sometimes you need to … Read More

None on Sunday, swarm on Monday – 2024/18
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None on Sunday, swarm on Monday This week: Adding cardboard; Wild flowers everywhere; None on Sunday, a swarm on Monday; A tidy desk is the sign of an unsound mind; We have had another mixed week for weather. There has … Read More

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