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’ve been cheating! – 2025/35
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I’ve been cheating! This week: Sunday surprise; I am cheating – I bought plants; Ready steady plant; As I write this on Saturday afternoon, I can see out of my study window the billowing clouds of building cumulonimbus clouds – … Read More

And on the fourth day… – 2025/34
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And on the fourth day… This week: Bottom of the heap; A construction fail; Another day – some more engineering problems; And on the fourth day…..; Autumn is here in Dol. Leaves on some of my deciduous trees are taking … Read More

The more I see… – 2025/33
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The more I see… This week: This week’s project – the roof; When is a screw not a screw?; After deconstruction comes reconstruction; Insectivorous; This week has been baking! I have recorded the hottest temperature of the summer, at 39.2°C. … Read More

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