To title your business with the prefix 'Global' you must be pretty confident that you've got a good…read morerange, and in here they do. All sorts of furniture can be found in here from beds to mirrors to chests of drawers. Not just one of each either but children's beds, double beds, bed side mirrors and full length mirrors. It's not exactly DFS or another out-of-town seller so the quality isn't going to be as high - but for the smaller price tags it's pretty good.

This is a huge furniture store in cribbs retail estate. The…read moreshop seems to have got old really quickly and a lot of the paintwork looks old and tired. The store does still however maintain a fairly good atmosphere although it was really quiet when we went in and I believe we were r=the only customers.They have a really good selection of both leather and fabric sofas which are fairly well priced. The sales people in this store can be a little pushy and can leave you feeling a bit stressed. with this store you have to pay for delivery and its not always quoted with the price of the furniture so its worth checking on that.

Noticed this new place and popped in last week. Great looking shop and friendly owners. Only bought…read moresome small bits this time (some handsome handmade recycled glassware, very nice!) but am seriously considering one of the UK made dining sets as they look wonderful. Just need to decide on a colour for the finish!

From the owner: We are specialists in both classic and contemporary furniture, made to measure in the UK. We use…read moresustainably sourced, FSC-certified oak, pine and walnut, and work with the Farrow and Ball colour range, offering every customer the chance to customise their purchase. Our furniture is traditionally crafted by hand using traditional methods of carpentry, and made using high quality materials and solid wood throughout. We also offer a selective range of handpicked lighting and home-ware, chosen to complement and accentuate our designs.

The other main store at Cribbs at the other end from John Lewis is a two-storey M&S with the food…read morehall, mens and xmas bumpf downstairs and the women's section upstairs. The selection is OK, but has dwindled in recent years from their more expensive or exclusive ranges back to their staple Per Una and cashmere jumpers choices. Their shoes remain, mystifyingly, some of the kinkiest in the Mall bar Kurt Geiger so even if thought of shopping in M&S makes you think of your grandmother's twin set and pearls then brave it and check out the shoes. Staff are always helpful in here, especially good as its such a big store, and will help you find things or fetch you different sizes of clothes whilst you stay in the changing room.

The M&S Deli serves reasonable food, largely because the cooking is automated. For instance, the…read moremanager explained to us that the pasta is cooked automatically by a special machine, so why we had undercooked pasta was inexplicable. Yet, it was undercooked. However, my penne and pesto was lovely and was just what I was looking for. We were told we would have to wait till 12 noon before ordering lunch (it was 11.55am), but it still arrived at about 12.25 anyway. This underlines the real reason we wouldn't return to M&S Deli: the food is reasonably tasty and reasonably priced, and the wine is good because it's straight off the M&S shelves, but the service is terrible! We were there for an hour, which was way longer than we expected. This was because of poor all-round service. While we were there, we heard at least three other complaints, with one couple actually leaving. I'm sure this isn't the sort of 'experience' M&S wants to encourage. Our waiter wasn't polite, wasn't attentive, was blasé and had dirty fingernails (yet still handled the raw Parmesan cheese). Get the staff sorted and the rest will follow.

My recent hobby of Tropical Fish keeping led me to Almondsbury Garden Centre just last weekend -…read morethey have a really good Aquatics section with everything you need to start and maintain a fish tank. With a rather impressive range of fish there is a lot to choose from - I would suggest reading up on the old fact sheets before going here as on one of my visits there wasn't anybody there who really knew their stuff. Having said this, on the second time there was! If you're going for a particular fish in mind it's really worth calling before hand as all new deliveries have to make if through a period of observation before they'll let you take them home. Aside from the fish the centre is positively brimming with all garden related necessities and accessories - I think I might go back in the spring to buy seeds for growing my own tomatoes / cucumbers / strawberries!

Having grown up in Bristol, I've been to this place countless times with my parents on boring…read moresunday trips out. As I got older though, I finally realised what a really good garden centre it is. It's basically massive, with a wide variety of plants on the outside section, from roses to small trees. It's got three sections - the main bit as you walk in, which houses garden furniture, indoor plants, seeds, cards, books (and the other more random items big garden centres tend to stock) and a really nice cafe, ideal for a cup of tea and flapjack on a sunday afternoon. Outside, it's got a really big patio area which contains most of the plants, with three large greenhouses to the top left of the patio. In here is an excellently stocked water department, selling fish, ponds, pumps and general water gardening paraphernalia. The young guy who runs this department is extremely friendly and really very helpful - he's advised on a few pump issues at my folks' house over the years. Check out the view over to the Severn bridge on the road that leads to the centre, it's phenomenal!