To be annoyed by neighbour's renovation

[ChaosIsMyCardo]

Need a little advice please. I live at the bottom of a cul-de-sac. Our new neighbours have been doing their house up from scratch since September. At the moment, there are vehicles parked in front of my drive most mornings - workmen, deliveries or the new neighbour himself while he does work on the house. They always move immediately and cheerfully when asked, but often this is during the school run and the extra few minutes and having to deal with them just adds annoying stress to my mornings.
I know the work has to be done and half of the time there is no choice but to park where they do (the other half of the time they could park on the side of the road but for some reason don't).
Am I being an arsehole to be intensely annoyed by this? I don't want to fall out with the neighbours before they've moved in. I just feel like if it were me, I would be knocking on the neighbour's house to introduce myself and apologise for the inconvenience, explain how long the work is likely to take and given them a bottle of wine!! Do I just need to be more zen about it?

In the first instance, I would ask them not to block my drive and explain why.

If they continue to do so, I would park there instead.

I’m going through this now - i put up with builders as nowhere reasonable for them to go with big truck and materials / tools etc.
I would ask your neighbour to park elsewhere and to never block you in; explain you need access and have been tolerant so far. My neighbour parks down the road rather than block me in - that’s just rude!
You can park over your own drive as that sends a message but it’s annoying for sure.

Our ndn's haven't moved in yet but renovations only happenings all day Saturdays and Sundays. Fucking ridiculous...

Ergh annoying...

Explain you understand the nosie and mess and thats one thing but the drive situation isnt working for you and needs to change.

While they do move politely which you appreciate being blocked in is making your day to day difficult and stressful.

Explain to them of they agree to preemptively have the vehicles moved between 8.15-8.45 and 3 and 3.30 or whatever they can continue to park there for their convenience.
But of you continue to be inconvenienced you'll have start parking across your drive so you can get out in a timely fashion without undue stress.

the reason you will start parking scross your drive if they dont have it cleared is because if you dont do that the alternative is you srart contacting parking enforcement and they are repeatedly fined. But you dont want to do that because you are a reasonable person.

Spell out the consequences and hold good boundary.

The renovation and the parking across your driveway are two different things for me. After a bad experience with neighbours who saw our openness with them about renovation plans as weakness and were obstructive and actively malicious throughout, I would no longer dream of warning any neighbours about renovation plans. I will, however, make very clear that any workmen need to obey to the minute the appropriate ‘allowed work noise ‘ timings.

I would tackle the parking issue separately by talking to the owner foreman, and saying that no one is to park there, no matter how briefly. If they don’t comply, park there yourself.