Anyone planning on buying a wind up FM radio?

I don't have a radio but I do have a wind up torch and find the same. It's put me off going for a radio, the ones at home take batteries so I'll just make sure I have enough of those. I do wonder how many of the good reviews for the one a PP linked have actually used it as a wind up.

I got one recently! Someone on here recommended a website where you can put in your family situation (kids, pets etc) and it creates a little list for you. Familyprep I think it was called? I was missing a fair few things so stocked up. I’m not a big doomsday prepper but I do think it’s important to be prepared, especially as we live in an area prone to storms and power cuts etc

A battery operated radio would just be to listen to the news.
I see zero point in battery chargers for phones. The internet would be down. It's purely to get news of what's happening I.e. when power will be back on. If it's longer than a few days news about distribution points.

In terms of warmth I would have no heating. But we have plenty of extra bedding we use for guests. During the day could go walking, as work would be closed, and in evening cuddle up under multiple duvets.

No one is jumping to apocalypse.
But I am in my sixties and apart from the seventies when power cuts lasted hours, not days, then I have experienced two occasions with water off for a few hours and a couple of power cuts for half and hour and two hours. That's it. Over four decades.
So being told to have enough food and water for three days in case of no power is not normal.
I will do it. But I feel I am being gas lit by those claiming this is normal. It is not normal.

I have a camping solar panel & a battery charger that plugs into it & lots of batteries.

No. Had one years ago when they were all the rage. Utterly shit. Wouldn’t waste my money on it. I do have battery radios - but highly unlikely to even dig them out and battery life is around a few hours on batteries which aren’t exactly cheap (six number c).
bit of peace and quiet for a few days sounds lovely.

That did not sound fun.
In that case our sleeping bags may be too bulky to transport if not using our own car.

I did a 16 hour outdoor first aid course one January and it really brought it home how important warmth was for a casualty (or anyone) before anything else.
We had big foil sleeping bag things to sit in and they really made a difference, but they are pricey.

Yes. I have one that's battery and solar too so that much cover all bases.

@HummusEater23

Do people know the frequency we should be tuning in to, for government type updates

That's actually a fair question..I.suppose any of the national BBC channels would do.

Once upon a time the default would have been BBC R 2? 4? on Longwave at 198 kHz...whatever number it was you could receive that hundreds of miles from the UK....but I think it got shutdown earlier this year in favour of using FM.

Maybe not the cleverest thing to do in terms of national resiliance but I'm sure it saved money...

I think i will get a battery operated radio. Mainly as a source of entertainment in power cuts (hence why battery operated rather than wind up) but also in case we need radio updates. Do people know the frequency we should be tuning in to, for government type updates? There is one, but I don't know what it is and imagine most other people don't either!

Do you have a commode? If not, you could buy a cheap one. Or a bucket. Or a camping toilet. Line with 1/2 bin bags and dispose of them.

Jta, you could also scoop the water out of your toilet and put a bag in the bowl.

When I was in the girl guides, I went to camp once and never again.
We all had to help with digging a great big pit and some sort of tent was erected over it for privacy.

I've pretty much blotted out all other details other than how ill I felt from not pooing for a week.

The bottled water companies will get a big boost to sales every two years, or more people will just switch to using bottled over tap on a regular basis

In the last couple of years I bought a radio alarm clock for DC bedroom, they use it to keep the time for getting ready for school in the morning. I didn't want an Alexa. It takes 4 AAA batteries. I keep meaning to stock up on them in the supermarket. That's my back up.

I've got a collection of candles. Several string LED lights that take AA batteries. A torch or two. And dp cycles to work so we have a collection of bike lights around the house. Most are rechargeable but some are battery. We are lucky that we often have plenty of food/snacks in.

Yes, I'm wondering how long the internet would have to be down before someone would think I know! I'll go and find that wind up radio and crank it up.

Last time the internet was down, it lasted a full day and we whinged a bit, my husband contemplated driving into work so that he could continue and I got a book out. Didn't think anything of it because everything else seemed pretty none apocalyptic.

Now if the electricity was off and the internet was down, we'd be driven mad by people's alarms and might go out and chat to our neighbours, eventually, or get in the car to see if we can get to a spot with internet.

If not, then we might put on the car radio but we'd have to be suspecting something was seriously up - the sort of thing that would be worthy of a radio announcement. I don't think mine is even tuned in.

We don't live in a city where an outage might cause panic, we don't live in a flooding area and so on.

Okay that surprises me.
Trust me though for many of us power cuts are not normal. Last time they were normal for me was the seventies. So this is a real change,

depends where you live. All of my adult life I have lived in places that had powercuts on a regular if not frequent basis (Hants, Surrey, Somerset, New Jersey US) Apart from a few years recently, cooking has always been by electricity so I have always kept a means of lighting and a means of heating a kettle or simple food. All the radios I have ever had have been battery operated. None of my adult homes have been in cities but none of them in the wilds of nowhere.

Plenty of winding up going on for sure.

What’s a grammar phone? Is it like a
gramophone? Or is it some new device to keep you occupied during ww3 with sentence structure?

This.

This. Wind up anything is pretty pointless.

I made a crystal radio as a child, it's something every young boy did (and I had a Dad who didn't realise I sas a girl). The loss of these kinds of skills is why this advice is necessary.

I remember Dad making us a crystal radio in the 60s. Showing off the skills he acquired doing National Service. Luckily, for him, the Korean War ended when it did and his Jungle radio building skills were never put to the test. The crystal radio worked.