On blogs, I often see people post something special on Friday. This usually takes the form of something like a Friday Five - five questions that people answer and then tag others to do the same. It's not really my cup of tea, but while I was flipping through sites, I stumbled over something that gave me the idea for a Four on Friday.

The idea itself came from a December 2006 PM program on BBC Radio 4, which asked their listeners to take a photo at 5pm (the starting time of the program) as a window on their world. They specifically asked that nothing be staged, just a photo of wherever and whatever was before them at 5pm.

It was really fascinating to look at the thousands of photos taken and sent in to the program website. In some ways it was quite touching too, as so many of the pictures are of very ordinary mundane activities, but they are still powerful because of this, not in spite of this. You can go to the BBC Radio website to view the photos taken by thousands of people on that one day in December.

It made me think that iy might be something that I could do - take a photo of a particular time of my week, or month. I really loved looking at snapshots of other people's lives and in my own case, I wondered what patterns and constants would show up over the 52 weeks in my world. It would be fun to also have a Three on Thursday, Six on Saturday and Seven on Sunday too, but I would almost certainly forget. But maybe there will be others that take up a slot........

So, I will be posting them at the AA gallery called Four on Friday. Hopefully I'll remember to keep it updated throughout the year.

And my very first photo is of Bruce reading the local newspaper: