Digested week: From Cruise in Paris to … Truss in Beccles

Plus: Zuckerburg's tribute to his wife, Clooney's non-tribute to Tarantino and an ode to Velamints

Monday

Without realising it, the Olympics provided a happy background to our lives and, on Monday, after Sunday night's closing ceremony, the comedown is hard. The drama of the medals table aside, it was three weeks of constant low-key good cheer, drawing us into conversations with our kids about who could get up that wall fastest and who would call 999 if you ever attempted to do anything on the beam.