But not me! Well, only on Buzz, and they allow it.

I posted "Incidentally, the reason I can't sign up to Facebook -not yet 13! (Not for any of the reasons suggested by some of my so-called reputable classmates!) So how come I know several other people across the world (including some of the above!) who are signed up who are also not yet 13! Surely they didn't lie!"

Apparently they did.

A quarter of underage children have social networking profiles

By OUT-LAW.COM • Get more from this author

Posted in Law, 29th March 2010 15:07 GMT

One in four underage children have profiles on social networking sites, according to research by media regulator Ofcom. The survey found that 25 per cent of eight to 12-year-olds surveyed have a social networking profile.

Children under 13 are not allowed to have a profile on the major platforms, including Facebook, Bebo and MySpace, under those sites' terms of use.

Weird weather fascinates me.

Just came across this really interesting (though somewhat old, in the scheme of things) article on weird weather, has some good photos too, so I thought I'd share it.

http://www.firstscience.com/home/articles/earth/weird-weather-page-1-1_1265.html

See especially the Water spout photo on page 4 (being socially responsible about copyright, and not reproducing it!) "The same goes for much larger waterspouts over the sea. These are huge vortices of seawater spiralling up into stormy clouds above, and you can see why ancient mariners talked about monsters from the deep."

This relates to our experiences in The Stone Summons ( Buy Now!)

I see 'Bang Goes the Theory' is back, but they're still not interested! (Who'd believe we get the BBC, way out here.)

More on weird weather! And see The Stone Summons

The Stone Summons - Chapter 3. Lexie

The Stone Summons - - - Buy Now!

• The following are from The Metro, London. (Thanks Stefan)
• In the first century, Pliny The Elder wrote about storms of frogs and fish – and there have been reports of weird weather ever since.
• In 1871, Bath was hit by a downpour of unknown creatures covered in a ‘glutinous jelly’.
• Hundreds of dead sand eels rained on Sunderland during a thunderstorm in 1918.
• In 1940, a tornado in Russia dropped coins dating from the 16th century.
• Golf balls showered down on the Punta Gorda region of Florida in 1969.
• In 2007, large clumps of tangled worms rained on the US state of Louisiana.
• Tadpoles, fish and the occasional frog fell in Japan’s Ishikawa region in 2009.