A plague of mermaids

[mirrorshard]

So. The mermaid has come to town. And the good coffeeshop - the small friendly one, with the comfy sofas and the acoustic evenings and CDs by local bands playing all day - has closed down. Vagabonds, it was called - not only did they do good coffee, but most times it was a good, happy crowd of young people, and the local special needs school used to take their students on a trip out there every so often. (The management had offered them all-day happy hour prices.)

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[mirrorshard.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure this was their own space, and it's across town, but I don't know what happened. My guess is that they weren't doing much more than making a living as it was, and when they saw the mermaid signs up (the shop isn't even open yet, or wasn't when I walked past the other day) they knew they wouldn't be able to keep going.

[raggedrags.livejournal.com]

I'm in (vile)Ipswich tomorrow, I'll see if that Vagabonds is closed too. (Did you realise they had one there as well?) I often grab a toasted bagel there when I have to spend time in that horrible town, so I'll ask them about our one, if they haven't suffered the same fate.

[mirrorshard.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't! I do hope they're not passed entirely from this earth.

[raggedrags.livejournal.com]

Well, the Ipswich one is still open. It's not as nice as the Colchester one was, it seems to get a much more 'general' stream of traffic. And although it has all the posters up for local bands and is a bit more eclectic in its decor than your average coffee shop, it doesn't have the same atmosphere as ours did. I asked the young girl behind the counter, but she seemed to know nothing about the Colchester one closing.

[mirrorshard.livejournal.com]

I hate to make regional stereotype generalizations, but - that's Ipswich for you!