I have just bought this book again. I have started it before, but I never managed to get to the end. I think my father read it to us, but I don't think he got to the end. Last time I tried it as an audio book on CD, but I was a bit suspicious it was a BBC adaption, not a straight reading. It certainly seemed pretty gay. Perhaps it is gay, but I do not trust the BBC with their adaptions any more. This time I plan to read it from the end to the beginning. I mean I am going to read chapter 12 first, then chapter 11, etc. I am not going to read page 192 first, then 191, etc. I have done this with other books I wanted to have read, but had trouble finishing. I did with with Don Quixote and The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. The Wind in the Willows should be easy compared with those.