Little Cheyne Court

If there's one thing Romney Marsh has a lot of, it's wind, so it was the perfect place to build a wind farm. There are 26 turbines at Little Cheyne Court, each one 377 feet high. Some people think they're eyesores, but I think they're wonderful, and definitely preferable to the nuclear power station a few miles down the road. They can be seen gently churning out the megawatts from miles around - you can even see them from the top of The Ridge in Hastings, twenty miles away.

This is also a bit of a preview of a big change that is going to happen to the strip in the Autumn. Remember when I did a month of Sundays last year? I enjoyed doing that so much that I'm planning to move to that more upright Sunday format for keeps in the near future.

I'll still be keeping to the Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule - I'll just be changing to the new format.

Three things have led to me deciding to go for a more upright format.

1) Let's face it, newspapers are dying. There's no need to keep to the traditional long strip cartoon format any more. The web is now the default distribution method for comics, and drawing them to specifications created for the print media and then delivering them on computers, phone and tablets that require something completely different no longer makes any sense.

2) Sherpa has a width limit of 600 pixels, but allows an infinite amount of depth. Let's use that space! I get to draw bigger, you get to see more art, and the strip can change shape depending on the requirements of that particular day's gag.

3) I have an Android tablet now - traditionally shaped strips just look lost on that thing.

The new format strips begin at the end of September.

And now - a picture of the wind farm, some sheep, some flatness and a power line from the nuclear power station.