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It’s been a pretty busy year for The Cape Queen and hopefully you have enjoyed all her shoots, wherever we’ve been and whatever the weather. There’s more to come but we hope you’ll enjoy this look back to some of The Cape Queen’s 2025 days …

Time to clear the cobwebs after too long at work, so The Cape Queen bade farewell to the city and headed out onto the moors for an afternoon of big blue skies and a very long walk. Re-creating the look of a 1960s and 1970s …

Sunshine and showers – a good excuse for an afternoon out and the early-Winter sunshine shone beautifully off The Cape Queen’s unusually-coloured nylon cape. There’s no getting away from the fact a maroon-coloured raincape is unusual but it really looks the part, being both formal …

There’s so much of Britain’s coast that isn’t cheap and tacky and that’s the case with Lytham which, while close to Blackpool, lacks its neighbour’s in-your-face good-time-gal image. But, like Blackpool, Lytham has wonderful sands: Clair The Cape Queen loves this part of the North …

Not again you might say, but who’s going to complain when we’re reminded of The Cape Queen’s Magpie Mine outing? And here’s a mix of black and red cape goodness in one post. The black cape’s definitely an old one, we think coming from the …

Ah, the great British seaside, a peculiar mix of the subtle and the quaint and the downright in-your-face vulgar. At Pluvmantelo we like both and especially the latter. And there’s no better personification of the jaunty old-school British seaside than dear old Blackpool, home of …