These days I find myself reading the news headlines between my fingers. It’s hard to tell which impending apocalypse is going to get me first. But here’s a story that dropped a large dose of dopamine into my system for once: monkeys keep pets – and it’s as cute as it sounds.

Anthropologist Cyril Grueter collated over 400 documented cases of monkeys caressing, grooming and snuggling other animals. From owls to mice, and pigs to bushbabies, their taste in adorable animals seems as wide as our own. Primates often (although not always) interacted with their little “buddy” with astonishing gentleness.

If you’re reading this in your bedroom you might want to open a window. We breathe out large amounts of CO2 overnight and if we sleep in rooms with poor ventilation, it can harm your cognitive function the next day. The German ritual of throwing open the windows for ten minutes first thing in the morning in winter is pleasingly named “burping” the house, which I’m hoping will help me remember to do it when summer is over.

And following the breakdown of the Spanish border in Ceuta, we’ve looked at the colonial legacy that makes this enclave an immigration flashpoint.