Spinney is a nice word for a smallish gathering of trees, alongside copse, coppice, etc. I’m not aware of a term for one specifically in an open field, though.

Apart from the hole, that could be chicken on a raft, an old Royal Navy dish.

I can’t go on. I’ll go on.

(Samuel Beckett)

I don’t think I’ve come across that before, but I’d say it depends on what is meant:

• I don’t know what that thing is.
• There is a thing, but I don’t know what it is.
• There is a thing such that I don’t know what it is. I.e., I do not know what all things are.

There may well be some other ones, but I don’t know what they might be.

Thank you for this brilliant transcription. It’s as good as the image itself.

Thank you. He did owe him a (trifling) mina of silver, though; how much copper is that worth, I wonder?