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THIS WAS THE BLOG AS AT THE END OF 2013.
This page is a "blog" of my progress in developing this site. If you are watching my progress, or want to see what has been added since you last visited, most of the details should be listed here (but I'm only aiming for the 'headlines', not every single change). If you have not read this blog before, the first entry at the bottom gives details about my starting point and my hopes and intentions for the future.
Date
Start of Blog - January 2013
01/01/2013
There are many different sections requiring update that are all competing for my time, and so I have to be selective about my priorities. I also have a fixed broadband allowance that restricts the number of scans I can upload each month, and I can typically only manage about 50 to 100 beermats per day.
My UK breweries are only partially complete. I have added all my 'small' breweries (no more than 5 beermats each), and am now adding the larger ones in alphabetical order. This is the main focus where I am trying to make some progress every day, though for the largest breweries this may be restricted to a section of 50 beermats at a time (e.g. Cat 001-050). I will only add the link when the brewery is finished.
My World breweries are all present, but I have had to change my style to cater for some of the larger countries, so am still in the process of updating each country to that new style. Also, following a couple of trips to Europe, I still have thousands of new beermats to add. I have nearly finished updating Denmark. After that I intend to work on USA, followed by Netherlands and Germany. I also have a lot to add to Belgium and Canada, with several more for Australia, Austria and Czech Republic.
My "Listed by BBCS" section is complete, except for Whisky. I have a large collection scanned ready to upload, but I am waiting for the Whisky catalogue to be published to obtain the catalogue numbers.
My "Other Mats" section has not been started, but is my lowest priority, and I probably won't start until I have finished the UK breweries section. My Tobacco (cigarettes etc.) collection is scanned and ready to upload, but is low priority.
My Wanted section has not been started. I do want to make a start soon, but still not sure what form I want this section to take, and need to give it more thought.
My Spares are currently only being updated occasionally. Many of the Spares sections contain little more than a handful of beermats just to establish the framework for me to link the pages. I have many thousands more UK spares to add, so it will take a long time before I can add them all, especially as they remain a lower priority than the collection sections. But if you want any specific beermats, please let me know what you are interested in and I will do my best to help you. My world brewery spares are mostly complete, except Poland onwards have still to be updated to my new style, and I expect to get some more out of all the beermats I still have unsorted.
Of course, there are constantly new additions that mean I need to update breweries or sections previously considered 'complete'. I will tend to do these in batches, which means some may be held at the back of the queue, so if you have sent me a beermat recently, there may be a delay before I can add it to my site.