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.

Fire casts a long shadow – 2024/09
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Fire casts a long shadow This week: Fire casts a long shadow; Making plates; Decisions, decisions…; Pineapple trees; Arbitrary lines; Last job in the hall; Once again it is Saturday and I have NO idea where the week just past … Read More

They fit where they touch – 2024/08
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They fit where they touch This week: Big boy’s toys; Starting on the jungle; They fit where they touch; Geometry, kinaesthesia and VARK; Trouble with the rhombus; Once again we are in that boundary period between seasons. This past week … Read More

Make do and mend – 2024/07
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Make do and mend This week: Make do and mend; More repairs; Garden tales; Dol has been bathed in spring sunshine for most of the week. Spring is very definitely here, even as the last tentacles of winter cling on … Read More

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