Goodness - never mind, at least you were not hurt. I keep an extra cleaner upstairs too, it is one of those you have to charge up and it works without any wires hanging about. My son-in-law got it for me so that I don't have to drag the main cleaner up the stairs and so there are no wires for me to fall over. Not that I need wires, I can fall over anything, even nothing!!
Know what Star? There are some ABers on here who would have you believe that I am accident prone. As if! I admit to a certain run of bad luck with ladders, lofts, tree-felling, feathers on the pavement, guttering - the usual sort of every-day-risk-management but accident prone? Not I