Requiem for a dying white rose of York.

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine,
et lux perpetua luceat eis.


Grant them eternal rest, O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine on them.

The opening lines of Mozart's Requiem.

Born in Yorkshire of a Yorkshire mother and an Irish-Canadian father, spent most of my adult life in Scotland, married to a Scots lassie, father to a Fijian daughter and Scottish son, grandfather to three Scottish grandchildren, but deep down I will always be a Yorkshire man!