I've sprung a leak

Omigod, water, can't deal with that since I left Holland where I lived near the sea.

We have had a lot of rain recently and when I walked down my garden yesterday I noticed standing water around my shed. It was strange because it looked like sandy, muddy water, as if it had come up from the ground. I went into my shed and that looked o.k. so off to work I went.

Late afternoon I received an urgent message from the council that there is a water mains leak which seems to come from under my shed! I rang my upstairs neighbours who told me there was a stream of water running along my fence. Fortunately when I got home, I found the water running away from my flat into the road, phew.

So today, the men in vans will dig up my garden (and possibly demolish my shed), whilst I fret at work and wonder what I am coming home to tonight, Oh dear, Oh dear.