We've been moaning about our water supply for years. Now they are finally doing something about it, are we to moan about the fact that they have to dig some holes in order to do it?
Strewth, some people would complain about the noise an ambulance makes as it rushes them to hospital.
I just loved your use of the word "strewth", Herby Dice. Haven't heard that one in a long time! I looked it up in the dictionary and found the meaning to be "a mild expletive"! Must admit my expletives have erred on the stronger side when trying to get past the lorriess/workmen/diggers/fallen barriers but it also adds a certain enjoyable challenge to the day.
I was going to use the altogether more expressive "jings", but decided that this might perhaps be too much for some sensitive souls. "Strewth", of course, is merely a contraction of "God's truth" and thus an appalling blasphemy and one I, as a man of the cloth (or at the very least a cloth), am utterly ashamed to have used.