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The Border Tart: NNTA Newsletter November 2003

GREAT EXPECTATIONS
We all know how we are expected to exceed our visitors' expectations if we are to be memorable and gain repeat or recommended bookings.

Times have changed since Charles Dickens, in his masterpiece novel, Great Expectations, described Pip's visit to a London eating place in the following terms:
'I dined at what Herbert [Pocket] and I used to call a geographical chop-house - where there were maps of the world in porter-pot rims on every half-yard of the table-cloths, and charts of gravy on every one of the knives (to this day there is scarcely a chop-house within the Lord Mayor's dominins which is not Geographical) and wore out the time in dozing over crumbs, staring at gas [lamps], and baking in a hot blast of dinners...'

Nothing of the kind could ever be found in North Northumberland and the Borders, of course!

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