In Robert Muirhead's spotlessly tidy home on the Hallglen estate outside Falkirk, the turned-down TV is churning through images of the latest walkabout by Alex Salmond, while we talk animatedly about what might happen on Thursday.
Its stores are well-lit and spotlessly clean.
Instead of the metal-detectors, violence, gangs and graffiti of popular imagination, the British were greeted by orderly crocodiles of well-dressed pupils, spotlessly clean floors and walls, enthusiastic, articulate teachers and bright, well-stocked classrooms.Everyone was agreed on the ingredients for such success.
But inside, the cool white floor tiles are spotlessly clean, and the carpeted prayer-rooms look well-kept.
Semiconductor fabrication plants have to be kept spotlessly clean, but on the night of the fire, when staff were rushing around and firemen were tramping in and out, smoke and soot had contaminated a much larger area of the plant than had first been thought.
The passengers have travelled on fast, punctual trains, and arrived to a spotlessly clean station.
At national level, it has functioned, if not spotlessly, at least fairly well since 1985: power has alternated in an orderly manner, and presidents have secured working legislative majorities.
Our hotel, the Crystal, was welcoming in that peculiarly Austrian way of being spotlessly neat, but at the same time pleasantly cosy.
This is not the Singapore of gleaming office blocks, immaculate shopping centres and spotlessly efficient mass transit.
While it is already spotlessly clean, welcoming and friendly – structurally, it's showing signs of wear and tear and it's limited in terms of the facilities it can offer.
Ueno is something of an ice samurai, creating diamond-shaped ice he chips from the spotlessly clear blocks that are delivered daily.
