What are "Fins and Spinneys" ?? As in...

BlueJazz

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Mon Feb-11-08 11:48 PM
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What are "Fins and Spinneys" ?? As in...

"Romping with his school chums in the fins and spinneys, when the twilight bathed the hedgerows .....

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cmkramer

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Tue Feb-12-08 12:35 AM
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1. My favorite "Frasier" episode!

I love Gil Chesterton!!!

FWIW, I think "fins" is probably "fens" which is a kind of marshland. I have no idea what a "spinney" is.

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Tuesday Afternoon

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Tue Feb-12-08 01:04 AM
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2. a fen is a

low land that is covered wholly or partly with water unless artificially drained and that usually has peaty alkaline soil and characteristic flora (as of sedges and reeds)

a spinney is
a small wood with undergrowth

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BlueJazz

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Tue Feb-12-08 09:13 AM
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3. Thanks!.....I had always wondered about that...... nt

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