Category: Raincapes

Possibly, in the dim and distant past, Clair the Cape Queen was involved with adventurer/spy Modesty Blaise, whose continent-crossing crime-fighting set-up went under the name The Network. No pretence, no long-winded nonsense. The Network. End of. Yes, there was plenty of international derring-do in the …

We do like Jr Walker & The All Stars’ 1972 ‘Walk in the Night’ and here’s Clair the Cape Queen certainly doing that, not far from her Mercia abode. The night was still and cool and the old buildings, with attendant old streetlights, added a …

OK, not the sort you’d have found at the end of the pier in Blackpool in the late 1960s but one that’s equally good – Clair The Cape Queen in a trio of capes, bringing bright colours and more muted hues to Mercia. Expect more …

Clair The Cape Queen’s got a thing for post-war industrial architecture, with a great affinity for buildings from the 1950s and 1960s. She came across this abandoned factory on one of her exploration trips and couldn’t resist a few cape pictures being taken at the …

Even Clair The Cape Queen has to visit the shops and with the rain falling a cape was needed to keep her dry. Today it was her sweet bag cape – so-called because its stripes reminded her of the paper bags you’d put loose sweets …

There’s no rhyme or reason for this selection of images other than we thought it was time for some more monochrome goodness. We love the old-school look just as much as we like our colour images, but in black and white there’s just that something …

The Cape Queen’s interest in Mercia’s history means there’s plenty of walking in the hills, and it’s that often-happening bad weather that led to her love of raincapes and the all-enveloping protection they provide. Over Easter the rain fortunately didn’t come, but Clair still donned …

More holiday snaps courtesy of The Cape Queen, who was once again afflicted with weather of a kind best described as grim. Nevertheless, a determined Clair brought much colour to the sand-bound proceedings courtesy of the Carousel Cape, whose head-turning air pleased West Mercia beachgoers …