Timid mole yearns to explore the wide world'. '.strtoupper('g')ruff old badger enjoys peace and quiet'. '.strtoupper('r')at likes summer picnics and just messing about in boats'. '.strtoupper('t')heir idyllic lives on the riverbank are turned upside down when toad announces his latest in a long line of extravagant obsessions a gypsy caravan.and generous toad'. '.strtoupper('e')xciting toad'. '.strtoupper('o')nly a tiny bit boastful toad'. '.strtoupper('t')he riverbankers console themselves with the fact that he cannot possibly get any worse until, bewitched by the roar of a motor car and the screech of burning tyres, he does'. '.strtoupper('t')he other animals resolve to save him from himself andndash but can they teach him even a jot of restraint and help him evict the opportunistic stoats and weasels who have taken over his ancestral pile?and