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.

Covers off and on – 2026/16
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Covers off and on This week: Covers off and on; Lots of fruit; A walk on the wild side; The week started with some rain. Black clouds formed a backdrop to the approaching rain. We have had 12mm or 12 … Read More

Spring into summer – 2026/15
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Spring into summer This week: Spring into summer; The shadow of Yugoslavia; Digging in; The week after Easter is always a little strange. Easter Monday is a public holiday here, a “no work at all” day with everything closed. So … Read More

Bee orchids – 2026/14
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Bee orchids This week: Easter rituals; Bee orchids; My Bluebell Wood; It’s Easter, so in the shops there are East Eggs and chocolate bunnies. I didn’t need to buy any because I have my own “Easter bunnies”… And a very … Read More

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