While munching on an oatcake at dinner yesterday, I had a sharp pain in my recently filled tooth, and then a constant stabbing pain – not good news, as the dentist said if the flling didn’t work, I’d need root canal treatment. Going home again would be complicated, so we resarched local dentists in Lancaster. 9am and I was on the phone to the private Bay Dental Surgery who kindly agreed to see me at 10am. It was a quick dash over to Lancaster (thanks Romy and Peter) and we just about made it. The dentist was lovely, he didn’t think I needed root canal treatment, and that I probably just jolted it – apparently I have a strong bite! He filed down the filling and sent me on my way. Touch wood, so far so good. We were lucky as the lady who answered the phone was the dentist’s wife, so she ‘pulled in a favour’.

The original course of the Lancaster canal terminated at Kendal, so we decided to spend the day there as it’s only 8 miles from the current terminus. We visited a fabulous chocolate shop, I could have been tempted by one or two. We did buy a box of chocolates to say thank you to the Bay Dental Practice – I checked….they do eat goodies!

We visited the Quaker Tapestry Museum with 40 embroidered panels covering the 350 years . Our favourite tapestry is the one of the tall ships.

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We passed Trinity Church, and lit candles for loved ones lost, it’s a sad reminder how many family and friends and are no longer with us.

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We followed the culture walk around Kendal and took in all the various sights, the Civic Society have been quite active in putting up plaques with useul information. We had the obligatory selfie, the photo on the right made me smile, how did we cope before mobile phones?

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We had dinner in the local restuarant before saying cheerio to Romy and Peter who tomorrow begin the journey back home. We’ll also be casting off tomorrow, and looking forward to new waters.