How strange. This is one of those photos that I thought would be held for weeks and then tucked away on a black & white page somewhere in the depths of the paper.

But no, less than 24 hours after I did the picture it's on the front of this week's Ross-shire Journal, presumably because it's a happy and colourful photo to brighten up a front page of somewhat downbeat stories. (And it's nice to have a happy story about Tain after something horrible that happened last week.)

Yes the cake was meant to be central but I'd been shifting the girls around for long enough and they were way past bored so it was time to snap the pic and be done.

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