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Exchange Meeting
The 2018 UKSC Exchange meeting will be held on Saturday 6th October 2018 at Gorse Hill Baptise Church Swindon.
Further details can be found here.
Sweet Thoughts 94
The May 2018 newsletter can be accessed through the Newsletter Page of the website.
The new finds packets have been added to the database and the new finds database has also been updated.
One new set has ben noted which has been added to the sets list.
As indicated in other updates a large number of Tate and Lyle wrappers have been added to the database and wrapper numbers list. Some of these are reported on in the newsletter.
Don’t forget that as new finds arrive they are added to the New Finds blog. (Although this can take a couple of weeks.)
Tate and Lyle lump wrappers
I have finished adding to the website a large numbe of Tate and Lyle wrappers. These came from the collection of the late Joan Pick and were scanned by Don Collishaw.
In total there were 835 wrappers more than doubling the the number of wrappers on the SUGARCAT database. There are now over 12,000 packets on the database.
A large number of these wrappers have reference numbers on and were listed as “missing” on the online version of Pam Millers list of T&L design numbers. The list has been updated such that there are now more known than missing, although I will need to check the online list against Pam’s verions once she had finsihed upating it.
To access the database and wrappers list you need to be a member.
David Phillips
More lump wrappers
Over the past few weeks another 5 batches of Tate and Lyle lump wrappers have been added to the website; in total over 400 wrappers.
See the added page for more details.
Lump wrappers added
Another batch of 126 lump wrappers have been added to the SUGARCAT database. This is in addition to an earlier batch of 27 wrappers.
All have been scanned and sent by Don Collishaw from the collection of the late Joan Pick. many of them have been previously listed as “missing” on the Tate & Lyle numbers list maintained by Pam Miller and will be included in the forthcoming newsletter, or the subsequent one. The online list has also been updated.
See the added page for a link to these two batches.
There are a lot more wrapper scans sent by Don that are still to be processed and added.
Packets added
Twenty five packets submittted by Iain Farquhar have been added to the SUGARCAT database. There were from collections donated to UKSC.
Packets Added
A further 61 packets have been added to the SUGARCAT database. There were from collections donated to UKSC and were submitted by Pam Miller.
There are now 11,097 packets on the database.
Packets Added
192 packets submitted by Dave Mansley have been added to the database.
Visit the database.
See these packets.
Added page added
A new “added” page has been added to the SUGARCAT database part of the website.
This is intended to show recent batches of packets added to the database as a list. Although it has been possible to select packets by the time they were added this was in certain date ranges. This could be inconvenient for me when adding packets on consecutive days and wanting to check them.
I have therefore changed the code a bit to allow searching on the packet date added field. By entering, for example, 10/02/2018 in the text field on the SUGARCAT page it is now possible to show all packets added on that date. Similarly entering 02/2018 will show all packets added in February.
The added page simply makes use of this to list the batched and provide a link that will show the packets for that particular date.
David Phillips
Exchange Meeting advance notice
The 2018 Exchange meeting will take place on Saturday 6th October at Gorse Hill Baptist Church, Swindon.
Further details to follow.
Misc packets
Some packets submitted by Dave Mansley have been added to the SUGARCAT database. There are a few from an old Sugarthon Christmas set and several old (non Tate and Lyle) wrappers.
I still have just over 200 more packets from Dave and quite a few from Pam MIller that are waiting to be processed and added.
See these packets on the database.
List of packets added by date.
Sweet Thoughts Issue 93
The February 2018 newsletter can be accessed through the Newsletter Page of the website.
The new finds packets have been added to the database and the new finds database has also been updated.
The Tate and Lyle wrappers shown in the newsletter have also been added to the database and their numbers noted on the list of the known and unknown numbers on T&L wrappers.
Three sets have been noted, one new and two older but previously unknown. These have been added to the sets list with low resolution pdfs. The list and any set PDFs have also been updated for other sets mentioned in the newsletter (except RKF Attractions).
Don’t forget that as new finds arrive they are added to the New Finds blog. (Although this can take a couple of weeks.)
Tate & Lyle Wrappers
I have added 34 Tate and Lyle wrappers to the SUGARCAT database from scans sent in by Dave Mansley. This is just scratching the surface of scans I have from Dave, and Pam Miller and a number of those are also T&L wrappers. All the new ones are in the TateLyle folder.
I have also updated the T&L numbers list where appropriate.
Sweetener Packets
Fifty four packets have been added to the SUGARCAT database. Most of these are sweeteners from collections donated to the club, scanned and submitted by Pam Miller. There are also a few from Mike Henley.
Hungarian Meeting
Details have been added of an exchange meeting in Hungary at the end of August 2018.
Updates
Some updates have been made to the SUGARCAT pages.
First, a few packets have been removed because they are not from the UK and various other corrections have been made. I am grateful to Pam Miller for pointing these out.
Secondly, the UK sets page has been changed so that the list of sets with graphics is now the top item, followed by set comparisons and then the list without graphics. Previously the list of sets with graphics took a long time to load hence the third change.
Thirdly, the list of set, showing pictures of the packets, now shows just five most recent sets. But there is now the option to select which sets to see. Simply collecing the search button without any other options will show the full list. But it is also possible to select which type of packet from a drop down list and also to enter some text to search for. For example entering the text pucc would show all the Puccino’s sets. Of course it is also possible to see all the Puccino’s sets from the sets comparison page.