Alan Tristram reports: ‘I was staggering, recovering from a major cancer op, and fumbling for my wallet in Pak n Save when suddenly a tough-looking builder waved a payment card over my till and said ‘compliments of Bob Stewart Builders.’

I thought I was hallucinating.

It’s not often someone insists on paying your $60 grocery bill.

I went over to his till and asked him whether he knew me, or my surfie son, from somewhere local.

No, he said. it’s ‘with the compliments of Bob Stewart Builders.’

He was obviously a builder himself — dusty shorts, boots, and muscular arms.

So I told him his good deed would go much further.

I recall Jesus saying somewhere that