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鈥淚鈥檝e already booked my tickets,鈥� says Katy.

Guy leans forward, aghast. 鈥淲hat? You mean you can鈥檛 just turn up? You have to pre-book?鈥�

鈥淥f course. My friend has even chosen her outfit.鈥�

Guy can鈥檛 get his head round this but admits he has seen a couple of episodes 鈥� but only because his girlfriend made him. He says that, as far as he can see, it鈥檚 just a show about middle-age women.

After pointing out that a lot of ladies in their thirties may well have something to say about that comment, like a true man, Guy expertly changes the subject.

鈥淥kay, so why do women like it so much? It鈥檚 because you can relate to the characters, isn鈥檛 it?鈥� 鈥淲ell, that and all the Mui Mui shoes.鈥�

鈥淢ui what, who?鈥�

Guy is clearly out of his depth but, once again, seamlessly pulls the conversation back from the topic of shoes and dresses by saying he feels most TV shows these days are a) aimed at women and b) want to tell us how to live our lives.

鈥淭here are so many television programmes telling us what to do 鈥� How to look Good Naked, Supernanny. It鈥檚 as if everything is public service television. And so much is aimed at women. For example, the men in Sex and the City are pretty peripheral. They鈥檙e not meant to be deep or anything.鈥�

鈥淣o, they are just playthings,鈥� says Katy matter of factly, 鈥渂ut then the women in programmes aimed at entertaining men aren鈥檛 given much of a third dimension, are they?鈥�

Dangerous territory again, so on to the Beijing Olympics.

鈥淚 think it鈥檚 a shame that this is on the world stage and, though the venues are unbelievably beautiful, they are not practical, cost-effective or environment friendly,鈥� says Guy. 鈥淭he bubble is a beautiful structure, but it has an inner and outer shell, which seems wasteful.鈥�

Katy agrees: 鈥淪ustainability is such a huge issue. We should be trying to reduce the amount of materials we use.鈥�

鈥淥n that point, there is not much an engineer can do, other than make suggestions. If an architect designs something with 1,000 tonnes of redundant steel around it, there is not much we can do about it really.鈥�

The pair discuss their UK and international construction and design a little longer before the chat winds its way back to films and Indiana Jones. This time, Guy gets much more animated: 鈥淭hat is one I am so going to see!鈥�

鈥淏ut what of the bad reviews?鈥� 鈥淒on鈥檛 care. I鈥檓 going.鈥�

Ah-ha! So he is just as excited about Indy and his whip-cracking antics as we are about Sex and the City. Bet he鈥檚 pre-booked tickets and chosen an outfit, too.