anybody else getting frequent loss of g-mail over the last couple of weeks ?

Mine's been fine Alan, had at least 1 email every day since the beginning of June.

We have two gmail accounts and have had no problems recently.

Dave

Mine has been fine and the Theatre company email is also run on the back of gmail and no issues there either.

Worth checking here
https://www.google.co.uk/appsstatus#hl=en-GB&v=status

or here when you have issues
https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/mail.google.com.html

just went to check messages and got the 'oops message'.

refreshed the page and got
This site can't be reachedThe webpage at https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/KtbxLzGLlQzPndlwGWCWQPdtsSlPdhTtVq might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
ERR_FAILED

according to Google all is well in google land 

must have upset them as well.