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THIS WAS THE BLOG AS AT THE END OF 2016.
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 2016
01/01/2016
Looking back at 2015 (see the subpage), it is deja vu! Once again I think I've made a lot of progress, but still have so much to do. Most countries were updated, and some substantially. I made enough progress to get round to starting the next stage of trying to update Germany - a massive task! Once again, I still have a lot of recent acquisitions to add, especially to Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, the Netherlands and USA, but I will try to do some of these as I progress with the German updates.
I was granted access to a copy of a new Tobacco catalogue, so also managed to add my collection, with the exception of some recent acquisitions.
My "Other Mats" section has finally started (well, just Tobacco so far!), but remains my lowest priority. However, I have a copy of a draft Airlines catalogue and have done some work in that area, and I hope to add some this year.
My Wanted section has finally started at the start of 2016, but may be slow progress. I still intend to add a 'Name Finder' section to help find those beermats that don't mention the actual brewery name, but this will almost certainly be delayed again.
Spares are still being updated almost daily. Most of my World brewery spares are listed, including Germany. I added many more UK spares in 2015, but many have been 'claimed' already, so the overall totals may not have increased greatly. However, I still have many thousands to add, so 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. I hope to add some more content to these during 2016.
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.