In an otherwise deserted public square between the flats, a table in front of a red ground floor flat stood out a mile.
The doors to the kitchen and the lounge, which were at the back of the flat, stood open onto the windowless hallway; a thin blue light, falling through them, lay in rectangles on the hall carpet.
A hundred yards north of our flat stood St Mary's Church, a squat, elderly parish establishment notable for the debates held there in October 1647 at the height of the English civil war.
While ghost estates of new, unsaleable flats stand empty across the land, 170,000 people are struggling with negative equity.
But since the collapse of the bank that led the funding, construction has almost ground to a halt.Likewise, blocks of half-built luxury flats stand half-finished along the waterfront.
In the east of the city, the Bluevale and Whitevale flats stand as icons of this era, reaching higher than any of the other tower blocks and earning the accolade of Scotland's tallest residential buildings.
The Ori ($60)is a fold-flat stand that protects your screen when you're not using it, and turns into a nice platform when you fold it out.
