Fell off the stepladder again,

Have you thought about using a long handled feather duster.

I use one on my very steep stairwell.

I’m also very careful if using a step ladder. I certainly wouldn’t be jigging around to music at the same time.

Thinking about the cleaning issue - why on earth clean the ceiling of a conservatory? We have one and only clean the floor. I hate cleaning.
Even my husband, who is a cleaning fanatic, wouldn't see the need to do that.

I don't climb steps/ladders, housework is something that gets done when the mood takes me

My kitchen & bathroom are clean, clothes are clean so am I ,I'm not a total slut

Chances of me falling of steps cleaning my non-existant conservatory are zero, living alone I take no chances

Having broken a bone for the first time in my life I am now wary of doing it again, so your antics, thisisnotme, made me go cold. Please take care - get a long handled cleaning gadget, get your OH to clean, get a window cleaner to do the inside of the conservatory but PLEASE don't carry on chancing a broken bone yourself. I healed well and quickly but I don't want that inconvenience again.

I actually enjoy cleaning hoovering is my fave by far, since got the brilliant shark hoover. I tend to have my music on loud singing away, but I will say if I’m in a mood or having a bad day I put the Rolling Stones 19th nervous breakdown on and turn it up , it never fails to make me feel better, lol by the way we do live in a detached house not near neighbours

Angelic I am more of a splat faller than a slow motion one. One second I am upright and the next flat on the ground unable to get up. I had two bad falls in the summer so now I dont walk anywhere without wearing shoes or slippers.

I would never go up a ladder or clean a ceiling. There's enough to do at floor level.

Whenever I do chores that I don’t like (cleaning) I talk as I do it as if I was giving instructions on a TV channel. Daft I know, but somehow it makes it a little (not a lot) more pleasurable.

I invested in a long extendable cleaning brush thingy which reaches to top of conservatory roof. It is mainly for getting the cobwebs down & works very well. I do stand on steps to clean the surrounds though but I am still quite nimble & I do try & do it when there is someone else around- just in case.

Get your OH to do it!

I experienced an unexpected fall a couple of days ago. Walking my little dog down my road (a small, single track lane in the countryside) I was happily gazing over the fields at the cows grazing when next minute I was flying in slow motion towards the ground! I lay there quite stunned and shaken and turned to see a speeding cyclist coming round the bend, straight towards me - all I could do was call out ‘don’t run me over’ and wave my bleeding hands at him. I think he was almost as shocked as me as he screeched his brakes on and swerved to avoid running into me! We expect potholes in the road to be a problem for motorists but not pedestrians! On reporting said pothole to the local road authority I was told only potholes with a depth of 50mm in the road could be repaired. Potholes on pavements would be repaired if of a depth of 25mm or more. Even though there is no pavement to walk on, the road measurement applies! Wonder if anybody would notice if someone took a little trowel to increase the depth by 3mm?!?!?

Margs , I was taught your friends way reason being we did not have carpet used a broom to sweep floors raised dust so dusted after.

I’m with you Margs!

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?

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!

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

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

What is this 'cleaning' of which you speak?

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

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.

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

Cleaning.....errrrrrrrrrrrr

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

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 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?