Sadly I dont understand it enough, or have the patience.
But it does seem to be a good spectacle if you know what you are looking at 
I tend to watch highlight shows, not the actual games. Tried to get London NFL tickets but missed out this year.
Always book day off work so I can watch the Superbowl but itās tough trying to stay awake for the whole thing!
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My son and I are planning to go to watch Washington in Washington next year we did see them play a tied game in Wembley a few years back.
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Only 850 more mondays until I retire 
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How did you work that out, @Bob1 ? Until you reach normal retirement age or early retirement?
I actually donāt mind Mondays - start of new week and all that.
Itās Tuesdays I donāt really like, neither here nor there! 
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Well I just went for my likely retirement age (subject to change).
My employers normal retirement age is 60ā¦so basically thenā¦using a date calculator to count the days for me and then devide by 7
Guy I work with can retire soonā¦so got me curious
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Iāve got 3 more years of NI to contribute before Iām eligible for the max state pension, so that seems like a good time to aim for retirement, although whether it will actually be the āright timeā depends on my investments/stock market!
The government/next government could move the goalposts on this again, so itās all really just a guess!
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It really is.
Despite me counting my mondays I am very aware its a very fluid situation.
Lets hope we all get to live out long, prosperous and more importantly, healthy retirements. Its the least people deserve after 30-40 plus years of working 
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A thing I heard over the weekend. Using pension tax relief to your advantage and have a mortgage on interest-only. Pay mortgage from pension. Any thoughts? I guess thereās the tax free lump sum and it sounds an interesting approach.
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Guess could work for someā¦definitely, absolutely something best discussed with a financial advisor, as it would only work in certain circumstances.
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Itās a weird one. Makes sense esp if youāre paying in a 40%+ income tax bracket, your age, term of mortgage, interest rate of mortgage and term and what the pension invests in. No easy answer I guess!
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Its one that needs a FI and a lot of specific data relevant to the individual.
I know everyoneās too afraid to ask, but how did your sweet million toms get on this year?
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Best crop in a while, thanks 
Iāve not had to buy any toms for weeks, still harvesting a few a day, though soon the green ones left wonāt ripen so I think Iāll just freeze those for soups/stews.
Any good crops for you?
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I managed to grow sweetcorn this year. Only 4 decent sized cobs from 9 plants, but I had enough for a couple of meals and some for the chickens!
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I grew too many tomato plants so have been harvesting kilos for weeks! Your freezer is full of soup and frozen tomatoes! Iāve never grown much before.
Peppers have been a complete dud, with few flowers and not one pepper!
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Looks like a tasty crop
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Really pleased to hear people have been getting on well with their crops, especially their tomatoes. How blimin expensive is a decent tomato these days!
Itās been my first year with an allotment and itās certainly been a learning experience, one which will pay dividends next year. (Yup, pun intended)
Weāve had a fantastic bounty of potatoes (Charlotte), some of the best tasting Iāve ever had. Courgettes and cucumbers have both done well. Sadly the tomatoes all suffered from blight/mould/dampness which was very upsetting as they were doing so well, hey ho onwards and upwards.
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Nice. Iād love to find potatoes that taste as they did when I were a lad.
Did you use pig manure?
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