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new new zealand, this & that

I finished This & That in miNiZ126 by saying:
“Unfortunately I have no new New Zealand bottles to show you this time, so that’s about it for now.
Except to say that many of you will be stuck at home with time on your hands so
it’s time to get the camera out, photograph some of your bottles, and write an
article or better still, articles. I’m looking forward to miNiZ127 being a bumper
edition.” I was right to add the flying pig as there has been a VERY poor response.
Shame on those who have been in lockdown and have not contributed – you know who you are.

AND YOU HAVE GOT WORSE! By the deadline for miNiZ128 I had only received TWO articles
(from Frank Wynn & Hugo Nami), some photos from David Spaid (and more since the deadline), a
pile of photos from Luis Campos (actually for MBL but Luis knows I will use some for miNiZ as well)
and a few odd bottles from elsewhere. My thanks to all, the few, the VERY few, who have
contributed. Shame on the rest of you. DO BETTER BEFORE CHRISTMAS.

I have actually been on strike. Frankly I couldn’t be bothered bringing miNiZ out with such little
material. However, I am finally at a good place to have a break from working on Miniature Bottle
Library (I have just finished a full sort of all German, Austrian & Swiss bottles – about 36,000 in total
and have already put German/German bottled whiskies on MBL mid-year, which is another 7800). So
here we go with miNiZ128.

We may or may not have had a glitch with sending miNiZ127 out. As far as I can ascertain all the
emails did go out but the stats on the ‘Send in Blue’ web site show differently. It appears that some
member’s ISP’s are rejecting the email as spam, even though the reason we are using ‘Send in Blue’
is to avoid this. Therefore I am going to send this issue out in batches of 5 members on one email
through my personal email. PLEASE, if you did not get a link to miNiZ127, let me know and I will
send you one (this applies to older editions too).

There are now two ways of reading miNiZ. You can read a Mobile, PC & Apple friendly copy in
Flipbook format. If you do want to print it there is still a .pdf for you to download.

You can page turn like a
‘proper’ magazine and there
is a thumbnail index you can
bring up (second symbol
from the left at the bottom).

For the technically minded it
is in HTML5 format, not
Flash as that is not
supported after this year.

Back copies of all miNiZ (up
to 2 years ago) are available
to read in Flip format. These
are in groups but we have
left the pdf’s as individual
files. If any member wants
access to the pdf’s of miNiZ
for the last 2 years just email
me. minizv@gmail.com

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