Things have been or have they?

Things have been quiet at home, the garden has been quiet too.
On tuesday some scaffolders appeared we had no warning of this. One of them knocked on the door and told Tony he needed to move his car so they could get the wagon in to put up the scaffolding. Now note I said told not asked. Tony did not take too kindly to this as you can imagine, but he politely asked the man where he expected him to put it. The man said " well if your going to be like that" and began to walk away. Tony pointed out to him outside our property we already had two cars parked that belonged to builders working over the other side of the road that runs along the bottom of ours, who used our street as a car park, and there really was an issue with parking. If he wanted us to move the car he would first have to get those two cars moved so we had somewhere to put it.
After much chunttering and phone calls to his boss, another workman was sent down the road and returned with builders from the site who were also chunttering, the two cars were moved, then Tony and Peter from next door moved their cars the scaffolding wagon plus two more that had appeared while all this was happening could get closer, the scaffolding was erected it took about three hours and that was the end of that. Now we had to wait for the council workmen to come to do whatever work it was they needed to do on the roof because still nobody had told us.
Tony and I decided to go to do a bit of shopping, yes you guessed when we got back we couldn't park outside because the council wagon was parked outside.
Tony asked what they were doing and why nobody had let us know. To which we were asked "did you report it? if you didn't you wouldn't be told, the person who reported it would". Well we had spoken to the lady down stairs who had reported a ridge tile in the garden weeks ago during the bad winds, but she had  not heard any more about it. So the council had not warned any of us they were coming, the work was finished the same day, which remember was tuesday!
 The scaffolders returned today, knocked on the door and said "please is it possible for you to move your car so we can get the wagon in to take down the scaffolding?"  Well they must have remembered from the last visit that a few manners help.

I was looking forward to a visit from Lynsey today but she texted me to say she couldn't make it, not to worry She say's she will be here next week. Emma had a stomach bug earlier in the week hopefully that will have cleared up, we don't want it passing on to the grandchildren.

So I suppose things haven't been that quiet really!