We awoke on New Year's Day to find a very deep, 1 metre diameter hole had appeared in part of our garden. A bout of heavy rain had apparently been the last straw for our waste water soakaway and it had collapsed. So, we spent the first week of 2012 with heavy machinery digging out and setting up a new one, filling in the old one, etc. All this, of course, entailed much more damage being done to a much wider area even though we tried valiently to rescue as many plants as possible from being crushed and mangled. It will take much longer to return the area to something like a garden. I think our 5 year old grandson summed it up best when he saw all the machinery (drill, crane, digger, etc). His immediate reaction was "Oh my God!"