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.

Our Weird Weather – 2023/44
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Our Weird Weather This week: Our Weird Weather; A walk on the wild side; The clock change last Sunday morning has meant that it is now dusk by 17:00 and dark by 17:30. And that is on clear days. When … Read More

Tomatoes and foot candles – 2023/43
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Tomatoes and foot candles This week: P P P P Pick a Persimmon; Making sense of numbers; Tomatoes and foot candles: Haircut time; Pouring oil on troubled wood; I have felt totally conflicted this week! The weather is still warm, … Read More

Going absolutely bananas – 2023/42
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Going absolutely bananas This week: Knowing your limits; Autumnal days; Winterisation; Going absolutely bananas; Mapping temperatures in the polytunnel; We have experienced some wild weather this week. Temperatures have been mild with sunshine at the start of the week. Then … Read More

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