Finally and by popular request I've got round to adding the Christmas Eve photo's to the site. Christmas Eve is probably the strangest night of the year in the pub, as suddenly everyone who has moved away from Biddulph is suddenly back for Christmas. It was very nice seeing some old familiar faces. There aren't many photo's here as the pub was extremely full and it was very difficult to get around to take any. The few that I did take can be found here.

A few months ago I introduced a forum to the site but I think the fact that you had to register to use it put a few people off using it. Instead I've decided to replace it with this simple guestbook. You don't need to sign up to use it, just enter your thoughts, comments or messages and click post. Please don't abuse the guestbook. All posts are constantly monitored and will be removed if they are abusive or defamotory to anyone. Click here to use it.

I'd like to say a big thank you to everyone who has been using the website over the past year. Over the last 2 months the number of hits we have been receiving has gone through the roof, even to the point of us hitting our bandwidth limit imposed by our webhosts. After Christmas the site will be moving on a faster server and I hope to start adding streaming video and audio to it. I've also fallen behind with some of my updates recentely and have about 5 lots of photo's that need adding to the site. It used to be easy to keep this up-to-date but since Mick has been in charge there has been a lot more on in the pub. I promise I'll try and catch up over the Christmas period.

In keeping with tradition from the past few years, the last Monday before Xmas saw a very special Christmas Quiz. Both Ecke and Rob dressed up as Santa as an incentive to get the bar staff tips. The results of the 2003 Quiz League were also announced on the night and prizes were awarded to the winning teams.

I'll post these online very shortly with a few more photo's.

On 14th December a group of very hungover Meg regulars made their way over to Warrington for a morning of Go Karting fun. 19 drivers took part in a championship that consisted of each driver taking part in 5 heats, and then a grand overall final for the best 8 drivers. Each heat took place over 3.5 laps of the course. Click here to see the results of the event and some photo's

Walking into the Meg this Christmas is guaranteed to get you in the festive spirit. Mick, Chris and Sam have gone all out with decorations and lights this year and I don't think there would be room for any more if they tried. It makes a nice change from the couple of baubles we've gotten used to the past few years. A snowman competition was also held to see who could build the best 5ft tall snowman to decorate the shelving in the pub. For all the Christmas news and more pictures click here.

In a surprising shock incident one of the infamous Roaring Meg Gay Welders* mysteriously appeared with an oven glove on his hand following a drunken incident after a good Friday night out at the Meg. Carl, who wants to remain anonymous told this paper that he couldn't get his key in the door so he promptly battered through the glass without his welders gloves on and ended up in hospital, we wish him a speedy recovery, and hope his wound doesn't fester! (Ouch).

*Disclaimer - Gay as in happy, and not homosexual!!

The biggest and best thing to happen at the pub for along time - the pub now serves food. When you walk in you can't help but notice the massive menu on the wall. The menu ranges from simple snacks such as Baguettes, Sandwiches, Jacket Potato etc.. through to evening meals of Steak, and Chicken. I've had quite a few meals up there so far and I have nothing but good things to say about the quality of the food.

Burger and Chips at £2.50 is way cheaper than Maccy D's, tastes nicer, and you can even buy a nice pint to go along with it.

To see a copy of the current menu click on the image to the right*
*Please note the menu changes regularly so it may differ in the pub than what is on the website

When I first started this website 4 years ago, one of its best features was the messageboard. It was extremely popular and received 1000's of posts within the two years it ran for. However all good things come to an end and due to the amount of abuse that it started receiving I was sadly forced to shut it down.

After 2 years I've finally decided to bring it back and have setup a completely new messageboard system. Unlike the original board, you have to register to use this one and so hopefully won't be as open for abuse as last time. Give it ago and get chatting. Visit the message board (Now offline)

On the 22nd September we decided to do something slightly different with the quiz. Instead of playing music clips in the music round I made people from within the pub come up and sing the clips in good old karaoke stylie!!!

We had 13 different people volunteer to come up and sing. To find out more and see the photo's click here

The 17th September saw the return of the Landlord Vs. Arthur Darts Competition where the landlords hand picked team compete's against the pub darts team for the converted Toilet Seat Trophy (ok, so this year we decided to drop the toilet seat). This year we decided to balance things up a bit and put all of the contestants names into a hat and randomly pick teams.

Chris, Sam and Henry
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On the 1st August, we celebrated the second Sarah Wright of the year's 21st Birthday. Everyone piled in the Tav for a party and disco which was provided by local Tav DJ's John and Bridder. For those of you that don't know her - Sarah is Rowans (one of our fine barmen) girl friends.

Click here for more details, and the photo's from the night.

Well the biggest news of the last month is that Mick and Chris are leaving the Roebuck to take over permanentely at the Tav. Its a sad loss for the Buck but its our gain. Over the next few months we're going to see some of the biggest changes in the pub for the last 12 years. Inside information has it that the back store room is being converted to a kitchen so they can start providing food during the day. The whole pub is going to be rewired and new lighting will be put in. The back of the bar is being done up, and who knows we may even end up with some new chairs. Its going to be very exciting period and as work is carried out on the Tav I promise to keep you all posted here and will try to add some pictures.

It doesn't seem like 5 minutes since I took over running the quiz, but on the 28th July I celebrated my 100th Monday night Quiz in the Pennine Tavern. The night was probably the busiest quiz that the pub has ever seen, and everyone there had a fantastic time, and would probably agree with me that I got suitably embarrassed.

Rob and Glenis provided an outstanding buffet and Rob had organised a round where each team got to ask me a question, just to see how good I am (take a look at the picture to the right for the answer to this question).

Click here for the full story...

Tony and Xena Warrior Princess!!!

On Monday 17th March we held a special St. Patricks Day quiz hosted by both Ecke and Rob. You would have thought that somebody would have learnt that when me and Rob and free wine get together crazy things happen. We had loads of special prizes to give away including Guiness glasses and T-Shirts, and one way to win them was to take part in my spur of the moment Irish Jigging competion. We had 10 people get up and give it a go.. and these included both Cilla and Spence. It had to be the funniest thing I have seen in the pub for a long time. Mick donated a free pint to everyone who took part, and in the end we couldn't pick an overall winner so we gave them all prizes. Pictures coming soon.

Don't forget the quiz starts every Monday night at 9pm

  Pugwash places a bet

And so the betting commenced and after 7 races most of us were around £50 down (all except Mick, Shaz and Glenis). On the brightside though we actually left the bar this time for long enough to watch a couple of races outside. Later in the day we all headed back to the Tav for a buffet tea. By this time Rob was so plastered he kept falling off his stool and had to be carried home.

Check out the pictures here. Even pugwash made an appearance again.