Lasers! Oh My!

As I'm super behind, if you're a regular reader you may have seen in my last 'Photo An Hour' post that for my birthday Moon and I nipped out to a little place in Oxford called Atomic Pizza, I know it's a duo with it's sister-restaurant being in Bristol but it feels really 'independent' and as the daughter of someone who used to be an independent restaurant owner I often feel more akin to places like this, maybe not necessarily for that reason in this case, but generally I do love trying out local places over large chains.


I actually fancied trying this place out after having a little creep on a girl I worked with at Vue's Instagram, her photos made my mouth water and it looked so cool, I knew I had to go! I always get to go somewhere nice on my birthday so that's where I picked, I had no idea that it would be so up my street or so reasonably priced. There's retro memorabilia everywhere - you may be able to tell that's something I'm really in to from my frequent visits to vintage markets and carboots - right down to the names of the dishes on the menu, a touch I really appreciated. We were sat next to a screen that showed trailers of old Hanna Barbara cartoons like 'Captain Caveman' and 'Wacky Races'. I went for a Coke Float and we had nachos to start, Moon had a pulled pork burger and I went for the 'Babe Ruth' (I had to), which was a burger with mustard, ketchup, onions and hotdogs and the nicest onion rings I've ever eaten, oh my God. For the two of us, including a few drinks it was only a little over £30 which I think is great given the dining experience; our waitress was really attentive and had the neatest nail art.





Kind of wish we'd asked for stickers with our dishes as you can collect them.




Moon went for their chilli fries, which weren't what I thought they would be but really tasty all the same.


Instead of mints we got Vimto lollipops ♥


The best wallpaper I've ever seen.



Outfit details here.





I'd easily recommend it to anyone, even though it's around 40 minutes outside of Newbury, it was worth the drive and I'll definitely be insisting on taking my friends here on their next visit, one of my favourite ever birthday meals.

Photo An Hour: Twentythree 16/08

I hope it doesn't seem as though I've gone all birthday-centric on you, but I've got so much to tell and I have to cram it all into a couple of days but try to make it staggered at the same time.

So, I thought I'd document my further ventures into twenty-somethingdom with a Photo A Hour, this was probably my least exciting birthday as I spent basically the whole day on my own, but it was great to have a bit of time to relax and not have to worry about anything, as it's something I rarely do.

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10am: Birthday cards.


11am: Essential nail painting session.


12pm: Doll pops back inside / I head out for my driving lesson.


1pm: Flowers from Moon's mum and brother.


2pm: It's a yellow afternoon and time to make lemonade / Tiny lunch in preparation for the evening.


3pm: Watching 'America's Animal Hoarder' / Baking.


4pm: Leaving my cake to cool / As a grown up, I actually had to go to the council offices to sort some things out, I was pretty unimpressed with this.


5pm: Moon got home and I opened my presents, he'd wrapped them in such pretty paper and got me a great Gemma Correll card ♥.


6pm: My finished cake.


7pm: On the road to Oxford / Waiting to order in Atomic Pizza.


8pm: Main courses arrive / Moon expresses his enthusiasm.


9pm: Back to Newbury / Stopping off at Tesco to search for housewarming gifts for our buddy, Chris.


10pm: Blowing out my birthday cake candles in my PJs.