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.

Birthday boy – 2025/38
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Birthday boy This week: A little local difficulty; Birthday boy; Home maintenance; As Saturday rolls around yet again, it’s been another busy week. The pair of Kestrel Hawks which have been around since January are still here. This week they … Read More

How to write good – 2025/37
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How to write good This week: My next Monograph; Planting out; Gardening matters; This week has been busy, although I do not have a huge amount to show for my efforts. We have had good weather too. There was much … Read More

Website woes – 2025/36
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Website woes This week: Website woes; This week’s project; Bananas in flower; We had some more much needed rain overnight on Monday into Tuesday. There was just enough for me to cut back on havingto irrigate. Also, as the autumnal … Read More

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