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THIS WAS THE BLOG AS AT THE END OF 2017.
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 2017
01/01/2017
Looking back at 2016 (see the subpage), again I've made a lot of progress, but still have so much to do. Most countries were updated, and some substantially. I completed the latest stage of trying to update Germany - there remain many thousands more, but I expect to take a long break before starting the next stage! Again, I still have recent acquisitions to add, but not as many as in previous years. Belgium is already under way, with only France and to a lesser extent the Netherlands and USA to do in any relatively large numbers.
My "Other Mats" section is now at least partly established. Many Airlines mats were added and work on the Drinks category is well under way. Although it remains low priority, I intend to spend more time on this section.
My Wanted section took up a lot of my time in 2016, but the UK section is now as up to date as I can expect (it will always be 2-3 months 'in arrears'). 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. All my World brewery spares are listed, including Germany, though there are always new mats to process. I added many more UK spares in 2016, but many have been 'claimed' already, so the overall totals may not have increased greatly. 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 2017, though I expect to restructure most areas to fall in line with the style I have adopted with the Drinks section. I'm sorry that this makes it harder for you, the reader, to find my spares, but significantly reduces my workload!
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.