APPARENTLY there is a water shortage in the South East.I have a simple solution follow the contestants in BBC2's The Apprentice around with a bucket as they seem to blub at every opportunity.

This week the would-be business tycoons hoping to gain a job with chief panto villain Sir Alan Sugar and a £100,000 salary had to design and sell a charity calendar for Great Ormond Street.

The girls in their infinite wisdom decided to produce a calendar featuring some cute kittens (so much for the hard-nosed businesswoman). The Charlie Dimmock lookalike Jo warned that it was a bad idea, didn't get her way and so burst into tears. Again, I'm not sure that's in the management training book.

The boys on the other hand went for babies. But they spent so long planning they almost ran out of time. They were like those kids you knew at school who spent so much time devising a revision timetable for their exams, including using various coloured pens to colour code everything, that they didn't get round to doing any swotting.

On watching this shower so far you wouldn't want to give any of them a job. They bicker and argue and seem to lack basic common sense.

The girls' calendar for example didn't say it was for Great Ormond Street, and their pitch to companies such as Harrods was a classic in how not to do things.

The boys on the other hand couldn't agree how much to charge for their product.

One final point: if this is as often quoted a 12-week job interview' how can Sir Alan actually say "you're fired" each week?