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THIS WAS THE BLOG AS AT THE END OF 2014.
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 for this year and my hopes and intentions for the future.
Date
Start of this year's Blog - January 2014
01/01/2014
Looking back at 2013 (see the subpage), I think I've made a lot of progress, but there is still so much to do! An enforced change to my broadband meant I could upload more scans, though it still takes up a lot of my time. It meant I was able to finish adding my UK brewery collection ahead of schedule, though there will always be some new issues to include. I have also updated nearly all my World breweries to my current style, with the major exception of Germany, but that is now work in progress and probably my main focus for most of 2014 as I have around 30,000 German mats to get through.
My World breweries are complete except for Germany, but I still have a lot of recent acquisitions to add, especially to Belgium, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland and USA.
My Whisky section is scanned ready to upload, but I am still waiting for the Whisky catalogue to be published to obtain the catalogue numbers.
My "Other Mats" section has still not been started, and remains my lowest priority. My Tobacco (cigarettes etc.) collection is scanned and ready to upload, but is low priority.
My Wanted section has still not been started. I now know what form I want this section to take, and hope I may be able to make a start soon, at least on the UK section.
My Spares are now being updated almost daily. Most of my World brewery spares are now listed, except for Germany, which I am currently working on. I have added many more UK spares in 2013, but still have many thousands to add. If you want any specific beermats, please let me know what you are interested in and I will do my best to help you. Note some of the Spares sections still contain little more than a handful of beermats just to establish the framework for me to link the pages.
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.