Thank-you to all. and those who contacted me away from the forum and persuaded me to pop back and read the resulting posts. I am at a point in my life where due to personal issues I am perhaps overly sensitive - which my 'PM'er' would be unaware of...and No I feel no-one would benefit from naming someone who felt they were 'right'...
Any post on the forum will achieve a basis of support or disagreement - which is accepted, but I feel to continue an argument unrequested on PM is not good forum etiquette.
We all live in different areas of the country and world - and to post that someone is wrong or posting misleading advice because they live in a different area where bees may be doing things other than yours isn't on. I watch my bees probably 12 - 14 hours a day - and learnt within my first year that at 12 o'clock bees will - and mating flights are always...DON'T apply to my bees. So when I read a very worried email from a 'newbee' I sought to reassure...Perhaps wrongly that not ALL bees work to the books; BUT are we not all entitled to do so?
I know there used to be a tag line here that 'bees do nothing invariably' and this is so true! PLEASE - disagree do so IN POST not via PM - Unless you know the person involved and what their background is...
I will lurk in the back-ground and perhaps post...if I can be sure that it is a piece of information which will not result in PMs I do not need...BUT thank-you all you wonderful people for the support