Fell off the stepladder again,

Have you thought of asking someone else to clean the ceiling??. That way you can dance all you like.

I don't have a conservatory, but if I had one, I would get someone to clean it. Too dangerous to go up ladders at our age. Hope you are feeling better Tinm.

I seem to have perfected the art of falling off in slow motion - very useful when I fell off in the garden when cleaning the outside of the conservatory - which so far means I haven’t been hurt.

I don’t clean outside any more

Thisisnotme I fell over in the street a few weeks ago and my son who was with me said I did it in slow motion and very gracefully.....

Perhaps next time, you don't play any music! .
Seriously, though, could you ask someone else to do it for you or look for one of those extendable dusters if there is one long enough. Sounds like climbing to the top step of the ladder is just too dangerous nowadays.

I fell over recently, while out with Grandson, who likes to tell everyone Nannie just went ‘splat’ on to the ground

I would keep off the stepladder before you really hurt yourself.

There is a short course on Future Learn about preventing falls. I don't think it mentions cleaning conservatory roofs, but there's good, sound advice exactly the same as I was given at the falls clinic in our local hospital.

My daughter fell off the step ladder on July 5th, whilst painting her kitchen. She broke her knee in 2 places, and shattered her heel so badly she needed an op, they`ve told her they couldn`t find every bit of shattered bone so they don`t know how good the repair will turn out to be. She`s still on crutches, and has vowed never to go up stepladders ever again. So take great care, TINM.

"Ouch" to those above suffered, and callgirl1 your poor dd!

I have a brilliant extendable thing for jobs like that, the head looks like a giant toilet brush, the handle extends to a huge length, cost all of about £2.99 from a local bargain store.

It's that slow motion feeling you get when you fall, wondering if any bit of you will be damaged!

Is OH fit? If so, can you get him to do the 'high jobs'?

Our window cleaner will do the outside of the conservatory, perhaps not as thoroughly as we would do it, but it's safer.

Your story made me shiver,*thisisnotme*. . You were very lucky not to be hurt.
I would NEVER stand on the top step with nothing to hold onto.
I once fell off a stepladder and landed on my back on a concrete floor. I was lucky, only slight concussion.

I have a swivel office chair and often stand on it to reach things on one of the higher shelves behind me. My husband is forever telling me off as the chair swivels round or tips backwards so I could fall off but there isn't enough room to swing a cat (she has to sleep in her basket on the lower shelf behind me ) I can't get ladders in here. Having fallen a few times over the years I know how dangerous climbing on anything can be so don't think it's sensible to stand on the top of steps to clean the conservatory - could you use a long handled brush and duster to reach instead?

Those swivel office chairs can also tip sideways even if you're just sitting on them - just don't reach too far for something as they can go over in slow motion!

I have one of those 'tickling-stick' type dusters with an extendable handle.
Anything more arduous means professional help.

Cleaning.....errrrrrrrrrrrr

I fell over the kerb in Salisbury just after the poisonings quite a crowd gathered but nobody offered to help me up lol!!!

You should come and live in GeordieLand, Linda. I've had 3 falls outside in the last year and each time people have rushed to help me up etc.

Ooh there’s something quite satisfying about the word Splat, isn’t there angelic? Hope you weren’t hurt!

What is this 'cleaning' of which you speak?

Get your bone density checked . Osteoporosis or not is a key factor in estimating risk.

Cleaning the ceiling? I need a little lie-down.....

My friend told me that if you take a tumble in public and people laugh, you're young. If you take a tumble in public and people rush to help, you're old!

Just to go off-piste slightly: I've had a 'friendly' argument going on with my friend for years about dusting and hoovering.

I dust first and THEN hoover - she insists that you must hoover fist and then dust.

No, no, no she's surely wrong?