The view from the back

Well it wasn't quite a raid but it was a farce ! At 03:30 this morning I awoke to the door bell going , the button is down at the gate so I thought go away as you do :-) and ignored it but it kept ringing . So up I get to the window to see blue lights flashing on top of a police car at the gate and a officer waving a spot light around, I thought now you don't see that every day I best go and have a look ! Fearing the worst as our past encounter with the Guardia on a traffic stop plummeted in to  a game of charades due to the lack of linguistic skills between the four of us before gave up and they let us go. Not in the mood for a game I put the out side lights on and opened the door and remembering the advice from our pool guy of "talk firmly " I wound my self up to my full bare foot 1.86m and in a deep voice with the spot light in my eyes said HOLA??? And waved for them to come through the unlocked gate they didn't move I got back ( in Spanish of course ) , hello good evening do you speak Spanish well being half asleep and up-to that point I'm fine I confidently said Si un poco I waved again and said una casa pointing but they did not move so we have I Mexican stand off ? We re 20m apart separated by gravel and I'm in bare feet do I keep waving like a nutter or go and put some shoes on ? So I went back in and the door closed behind me and the bell started ringing, thinking of how much fun I was having in the moon light in my shorts at 03:35 I decided to would be unfair not to allow the lovely wife to join in so I made sure she didn't miss out by waking her up from the dead , she was so keen to play she was off down the drive in her bath robe trying to start a game of charades. When I went to join her they showed us a picture of our absent neighbours who we've only seen over the wall and asked , I think , if they were in ? We said no and pointed next door they said number 21 ? We said no number 20 and pointed to the big number on the wall, then the mistake we tried to help ! As our neighbours are part time they went back to the uk 3 weeks ago so we tried to say this but they disagreed so we used the iPad and bing translator they disagreed they used the iPad to ask if we knew where they are so we said aero puerto englaterra  Whist the lovely wife did a great mime of a take off followed by a whooshing noise , maximum points I thought had to be a deciding round to us ? But no they challenged with no españa so we walked them down the road showed them the number 21 outside the next gate and the house is empty shrugged our shoulders and bid them good night , as we walked back I remembered our rental agent is acting for them on another property of theirs and thought it would be our duty to help the Guardia in every way so I grabbed his card and eagerly said telephono whilst pointing at the card señor Davis llama señor phelps ! The officer understood what I meant and was on the phone in no time , well real time was 03:55 I do like to help when I can especially as señor Davis has been so helpful to us over the last few weeks , maybe they went to see him too ? As for the why what when we barely got past the who , I'm sure the gossip will tell soon enough if not their back for Christmas so we'll just have to wait . Look its 04:00 coffee time .