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.

The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry – 2021/28
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My fruit harvest is in full swing. This week it has been plums. Next on the list will be Passionfruit.

And the good news is…. – 2021/27
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An early morning saunter along the lanes and tracks around my home is, at this time of year, one of the best experiences you can have. It is cool, there is usually a light breeze and the sun is warm, but not yet hot.

Some Keyhole surgery – 2021/26
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The lack of rainfall this year is really starting to show. The olive trees which a dew months ago were covered in flowers, are now dropping their young fruit because of the drought. There is no sign of any rainfall on the horizon either!

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