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.

Ouch. That hurt! – 2024/17
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Ouch. That hurt! This week: Ouch. That hurt!; Laying cardboard; Things I haven’t done; Once again we have had a week of strange weather for the end of April. The week started well with warm sunshine, but as pressure dropped … Read More

Does it stay, or does it go? – 2024/16
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Does it stay, or does it go? This week: Does it stay, or does it go?; Deep inside the polytunnel; How to waste time productively; My second oldest feline Ujako Gizmo has been off colour this week. He disappeared last … Read More

Chasing spiders and bees – 2024/15
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Chasing spiders and bees This week: Chasing spiders and bees; A walk on the wild side; Just a little open heart surgery; Cats and snakes; It is finished! I’m talking about my floor tiling of the Konoba. OK, let me … Read More

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