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00:00 A lot of these are white and grey, but however there are loads that are of a different colour
00:05 in this church and other churches that come under the Rochester Diocese control.
00:09 There's all sorts of colours, there's one that I've just showed you down here which
00:13 is almost the same colour, there's another one over there and another one.
00:17 There's a few in this church already that are similar colours.
00:20 I don't want nothing different, I don't want a Fools and Horses memorial highlighted with
00:25 yellow paint and that.
00:26 I want something that reflects my wife's life.
00:29 Because as soon as we walked in the stone masons, all my boys saw it and went "that's
00:35 mum" and it was her, colourful, vibrant, alive.
00:39 And it was easy as that.
00:40 We don't want a white one, don't want a black one, they don't allow black ones in this church
00:44 but they do down there.
00:46 We don't want a pink one, we just wanted that because it was her.
00:48 So the only point of contention I understand is the colour of the stone.
00:53 But it's a churchyard, it's a memorial, it's there to remember our loved ones.
00:59 But they're stopping it.
01:00 Why?
01:01 What's wrong with having that stone in this churchyard?
01:22 It's a place of remembrance.
01:25 It's sad but we've got to remember these people.
01:27 Same as the war hero, you know, it was all overgrown, same as the rest of the church.
01:32 We celebrate D-Day last week, we ring bells, we light beacons, but we don't bother coming
01:38 in and looking after this young boy.
01:39 He was a boy, he was 18 years old.
01:41 It's terrible, terrible.