The trail became overgrown with brambles, briars and other vegetation to become impassable. The understorey was congested with bushes and other undergrowth, including brambles. The other two have been left to fall into ruin and become overgrown by brambles. The name of the drink comes from the fact that blackberry bushes are called brambles. Tugfire, tangled in prickly brambles, is freed by Nick. Their clothing, caught on brambles and branches, shredded and fell off. O'Brien decided on the name Briarwood because of the brambles in its thick woods. Brambles usually have trifoliate or palmately-compound leaves. By the 1960s scrub including brambles was starting to become a problem. Their land was very wet, full of lakes and "brambles", and subject to frequent flooding. McLean filled in for Jackie Brambles on "Loose Women" when Brambles went on maternity leave. In 2001, the Company appointed John Fletcher, formerly of Brambles, as chief executive. In 1958, CHEP was sold to Brambles. Later she became GMTV's Los Angeles correspondent, (replacing Jackie Brambles). It is a subsidiary of Brambles.