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.

I’m a “has bean” – 2024/38
I’m a “has bean” – 2024/38
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I’m a “has bean” This week: I’m a “has bean”; Dealing with damp; What will the weather be like in…?; The tail end of Storm Boris arrived this week, with close to 37mm of rainin 24 hours. This is nothing … Read More

Closing the doors and windows – 2024/37
Closing the doors and windows – 2024/37
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Closing the doors and windows This week: Germinating bean seeds; It doesn’t fit anywhere!; Closing the doors and windows; We are in the middle of Autumn now. The days are comfortably warm at around 20°C however our overnight low, Friday … Read More

Ready, Steady, Plant (next week) – 2024/36
Ready, Steady, Plant (next week) – 2024/36
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Ready, Steady, Plant (next week) This week: Dealing with damp; Photo’s everywhere; Ready, Steady, Plant (next week); At long last, the daytime temperatures are beginning to cool slightly. Today (Saturday) it has “only” been 30°C, compared to the 36°C of … Read More

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