Everyone ages. The disparaging comments about women appear rather hypocritical when one considers men lose their appeal when older also.

Ammonite,

Don't mind Yabby, he's just having a go....besides, my appeal(s) are doing just fine :)

Lexi, great post and I loved the story! It just shows that farmers
are very practical people :)

Ammonite needs to go back to bed and try getting out the other
side, for clearly this morning it was once again the wrong side.

Poirot

You are, of course correct, the crustacean does like to muddy the water.

:P

Yabby - there is no wrong side to my bed...

So who agrees that the global over population and political instability problem may get serious enough to warrant action beyond voluntary use of contrception and family planning services?

Poirot, You are the very soul of wit. Thunderheads roll back, floods recede, and the very tide itself stands in awe.

Ammonite, With no wrong side to your bed you are indeed fortunate. Any chance you would share your secret?

Boylesy, Those with perky breasts and handsome buns can stay - by popular consensus.

Meanwhile, I am thinking of migrating to an African village, to sit around that fire, smoking and contemplating my navel, while buxom beauties tend the cooking pots. Blissfully, missionary stew infusing my very being, a contentment of ages is freed to roam on rainbows o'er every horizon beyond.

Future shock - jolted back to reality, to foist the troubles of the world back onto gnarled and weather-worn shoulders. Visions of Easter Island, and of a vast treeless, desolate, dusty and eroded expanse from sea to grey-brown sea.

Alternate vision: Wall to wall McDonalds, rich, fast fatty foods, obesity rife - decline of reproduction and life expectancy; GBH, cocaine, heroin, ice, meth - decline of reproduction and life expectancy; antibiotic overuse, super-virus, multiresistant staph and coccidioses - decline of reproduction and life expectancy; pioneering deep-ocean drilling, tanker rupture, sea-floor rupture, chemical plant explosion, nuclear plant meltdown, atmospheric and marine ecosystem collapse - decline of reproduction and life expectancy; global civil unrest, food riots, water riots -decline of reproduction and life expectancy; NASA launch of "Diaspora I", and then "II" and "III". A million years, possibly two, a green tinge upon the landscape, sky from vermilion burgeoning azure, emergence from mountain bunkers to behold a strange new vision of possibility. Naive, hopeful, children of a mutant infinity.

A far off siren, a strange unrecognised voice, "Asteroid Warning!".