Ladies and Gentlemen......Welcome to Gatwick........where the runway is a lot higher than I remembered it ! "
Now, that is funny. And it is the spirit I would love to see/hear from all flight crew in a situation like this. Some humerous self criticism, and sure as hell pax will remember this as an "oops" rather than a "we had a bad pilot" - and you hear that a lot, believe me
Keep it up!
(edited to remove use of bad sentence structure. Not sure I succeeded)