Another up on a flat roof extension and the ladder blew away - no one home so lowered myself onto the water-butt and fell through the lid!
Not long after I first started, it was one of those hot/sweaty days; I was tired; not used to all this ladder work, and I put my ladder at a silly angle above a small porch. I'd done this before, but the grass my ladder feet were on was usually soft, but this time it was baked hard.
As I got to the top of the ladder, it slipped on the sun-baked earth and I went crashing down onto the porch; for a milisecond the ladder and myself stopped; then I went crashing to the ground.
My customer was watching all this, with wide-eyes.
I was fine, just scratched and bruised, and I jumped up saying, 'It's okay, I'm a Geordie, I'm a Geordie'!
That was funny.