I watch politicians sprouting rubbish on television and I get angry. I watch them justifying inaction and making and giving reasons why things that should have happened haven't happened and I feel nothing but anger and contempt.
Then I see James Anderson on television and my faith in humanity is restored.
Now cricket fans will think I'm talking about England's greatest ever fast bowler, but I'm not.
This James Anderson is a plumber. But he's also a superman. Scouser James lost a son about nine years ago. He suffered severe grief as you can imagine. But out of that grief came a determination to help others in his son's name.
"I wanted to become the man he would expect me to be," he said on television yesterday morning. So James founded this charity with the idea of helping people. Being a plumber, he started doing jobs for people without charging them. This all soon began to mushroom and now James has a veritable army of people all over the country who are helping people in need and not just in plumbing. The whole thing has expanded to become a huge business, but a business that doesn't make any money and just gives things away. It relies on donations and work of volunteers.
James Anderson (the plumber) is incredibly humble about what he is doing and it is all in name of his son who died but who he believes is forever holding his hand and showing him how to be that better man.
Over the years I have had similar feelings about our first grandson who was stillborn. In some way I feel that Oliver is always with me and has helped me to become a better man (although only others can attest to that). I like to think that since Oliver died I have looked outward rather than inward.
So next time I hear a politician dribbling on I will channel my inner James Anderson and be a little more tolerant.
Yesterday saw me wrap up the latest Good News magazine which is a church based monthly publication and I'm approaching the first year of being editor. It seems like only yesterday I was approached and asked to get involved with this project. The magazine goes back over 150 years which is quite something.
While I'm writing it I have to remember that the title is "Good News" and that it is a Christian-based publication. So I try to make sure that I only include the good things about living in the three villages of Hethersett, Little Melton and Great Melton and there are plenty of them. I keep any bad or challenging news for my e-magazine Hethersett Herald. That way I can keep a good balance between the good and the not so good.