DM spends a great deal of time telling me where we’ve come from, over the last several million years. He goes to great pains to point out that we’re descendants of lungfish and that the dogs are ‘descendants of wolves’, which he tells them with great glee on many an occasion. Of course, we are also closely related to apes and monkeys, so to swing from a tree seems like quite a ‘normal’ thing to do.

So when, on the return leg of the five-mile trip to Polperro from Looe (five miles each way on foot that is), he decided on some monkey business, I decided that his tree-climbing should depict this enormous curiosity and delight in our evolutionary progress, especially as he was later busy telling my Mum about how birds have much better eyesight than us because early mammals spent all of their time during daylight hours hiding from dinosaurs but birds are descended from the mighty beasts so their eyesight has been inherited from them.

To be honest, I have just had a lovely day out with my family, getting some exercise, taking in some fabulous views and inspecting the local flora and fauna, which is all barrelling along in the amazing spring weather we’ve been having.

I should point out that Archie is, in fact, on the path behind David, not climbing out of his bottom as the picture suggests and that swinging from a tree with a Billingham dangling under you full of expensive camera equipment is, to a cautious and accident-prone person like me, tantamount to gross negligence!

All of that aside, I love the shot and I’ve had a very jolly, if very knackering (and I probably didn’t need knackering today), day.

I was shooting sets last year!