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And to think it had all started so normally. Conversation kicked off with ubiquitous recession talk. Everyone agreed the worst is behind us 鈥� fingers crossed. Robert explains: 鈥淚 spend four months of the year in Brazil and when I came back to the UK in March everyone looked so miserable. I think the general mood has got lighter since then.鈥� Or perhaps it was just the shock of swapping Brazil for the UK in March.

Felix supports the recovery theory with a word not often heard these days. 鈥淚鈥檓 trying to buy a house at the moment and got gazumped.鈥� There are, it seems, still housing hot spots in swanky corners of London.

Jonathan interjects: 鈥淔elix is the Red Baron of the office.鈥� On further questioning it turns out he really is a baron and fresh back from the invitation-only Winterwell festival in Cirencester. He can鈥檛 remember who was on the bill but at least he got to hang out with his model friends.

It would have been a missed opportunity not to ask a table of architects what they thought of the recent Rogers/Charles spat. 鈥淐harles overstepped the mark鈥� is the predictable consensus. Eugene says: 鈥淗e wasn鈥檛 just passing comment, it was calculated comment.鈥�

Tobi adds: 鈥淚t shows you how much power his mum has over him.鈥� Sorry? He explains: 鈥淒on鈥檛 forget, Rogers was knighted by the Queen.鈥� It鈥檚 a new, if somewhat confusing, conspiracy theory.

A few local soho businesspeople sidle over with some colourful suggestions

And the suggestion that developers routinely push schemes under his nose for approval? Jonathan says: 鈥淚t only happens when developers know they鈥檒l get the thumbs-up. I鈥檓 sure there have been many schemes not shown to him because they know the reaction wouldn鈥檛 be favourable.鈥�

It is about this time that two American women on the next table join in the conversation. One, it turns out is also an architect; at least that鈥檚 her story today. The conversation then takes a rather odd twist. 鈥淚鈥檓 a compulsive liar,鈥� she begins. 鈥淓very day I choose a new profession for myself.鈥� Today she began at the letter A and tomorrow is B. 鈥淏 is for botanist,鈥� she says, cheerily, 鈥渁nd on Saturday I鈥檒l be a chiropractor.鈥� Cue uneasy laughter. Her friend introduces herself as the 鈥淐EO of a hair colour home application business鈥�. And who is to argue with that?

Tobi then returns a packet of cigarettes to their owner 鈥� Ieva 鈥� by tossing them across the table. 鈥淒on鈥檛 throw, it鈥檚 very rude to do that in Lithuania,鈥� she jokes. 鈥淣ot in Germany,鈥� says Tobi, who spent four years working for Fosters. Why did he leave? 鈥淎fter working at that pace I was physically exhausted,鈥� he says, adding that it was a great learning experience.

As several of the party sensibly go home, three of us head into Soho for what Jonathan calls 鈥渁 sharpener鈥�. We stand around debating which bar to go into and the sight of three suited men planning their next move in the middle of Soho at midnight causes a few local businesspeople to sidle over with some colourful suggestions. The bar with the sand on the floor was tame in comparison.