The next generation

Obiter has noticed a very worrying trend in the profession in recent weeks: an affinity for BBC1's 'The Generation Game'.

Last month, we reported on a belly dancing secretary at Home Counties firm Charles Lucas & Marshall who was auditioning for the show.

Now we have Kent firm Thomson Snell & Passmore recruiting as a trainee someone who you will see on your screens this very week in the same programme.

Natalie Spurrier and her father had to drive a motorised toilet, make noodles and dance with cast members from Fame.

'It was my idea to apply,' she tells Obiter, recalling the audition where she had to sing nursery rhymes in the style of the Spice Girls and imitate household electrical items.

'I thought it would be a laugh.' And it was, although the downside of meeting Jim Davidson (if there could be such a thing) was that some of the magic of the show disappeared.

'I'll never look at the conveyor belt the same way again,' Ms Spurrier says.

'There were men pulling it along, rather than it being electric.'