IT’S SIX months since I last put pen to paper for this column. As so often happens with the best-laid plans, events outside our control drove a sledgehammer through our business plan.We then had to pick ourselves up and deal with the problem as best we could.This has been the story of our year. When our previous printer, Reach, decided to close two print sites, we had to find a new solution for printing and distributing the paper — and fairly quickly.