There appears to be a growing willingness in the profession to jump out of aeroplanes.

Two months ago, we featured a couple of, ahem, high-flyers (see [2003] Gazette, 11 September, 12) and now there are more.

Financial adviser Suzanne Tucker (above) and legal executive Laura Bowyer (bottom), who both work at Hampshire firm Warner Goodman & Streat, jumped from 15,000 feet to raise 400 for the British Heart Foundation, whose services they or their friends and family may well need if they continue doing such things.

Meanwhile, solicitor Margaret Eddison (left), legal information manager at Bolton-based Keoghs, celebrated her 50th birthday with a jump from a mere 10,000 feet, which raised 750 to coincide with breast cancer awareness month.

Curiously, all of the people we have featured tumbling out of planes - attached securely to an experienced jumper who does all the hard work like pulling the cord and landing - have been women.

Either men have enough excitement at their desks or, perhaps males in the legal profession are simply more timid than their female counterparts.

Surely our readers will have some views.

(This article refers to images that appear in the printed edition [2003] Gazette, 6 November, 14)