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.

Hurricane Apollo – 2021/43
Hurricane Apollo – 2021/43
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Hurricane Apollo This week: Catch-up week; Shore leave; Up on the roof; Decayed fibreglass; Stop Press!; Looking back; Almost on cue for the COP26 conference in Glasgow starting tomorrow, Europe is going to see some severe weather. Mediterranean Hurricane Apollo … Read More

A very old box – 2021/42
A very old box – 2021/42
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Those leaves which do change colour are starting to take on their autumnal hues. The light has changed as well as the sun is lower in the sky.

Heath and Robinson – 2021/41
Heath and Robinson – 2021/41
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The Red Admiral butterfly is one of our endemic species, but here it flies all year round. On sunny days in January they can be found flying and feeding on Ivy, just as they are at the moment.

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