At this Skyride event at Glasgow Green, one of a series of initiatives across several UK cities to promote cycling, Hoy is guided from one commitment to another by a small team of advisers, as carefully and insistently as if he is a precious thought none of them wish to forget.
Why bother to go through all the heartache and hassle of fighting to get your precious memories or thoughts into mainstream publication?
With all this being said, it must happen, but time is precious and the thought of arduous travel and work deadlines, paired with the thought of being away from my little ones for more than two days, creates an undesirable scenario in my mind.
Loft buildings are usually the empty calories of architecture, purely commercial enterprises with no room for inspiration and precious little for thought.
Most precious are her philosophical thoughts on heartache, and the artistic "gift" of being heartbroken.
She puts her hand against her head as if her thoughts were precious or painful.
Shane Watson, plumb lbw as he so often is, tossed away a precious review with no thought for cricketing logic or team-mates.
This was a dangerous, potentially fatal, undertaking, but he managed to hide his precious, life-threatening bundle of thoughts and impressions wherever he was sent.
