It has been the kind of week that suggests the planet’s Cumberwatchers are getting close to their nice lie down. Reports of the actor’s views and doings have now reached a level that makes you wonder not whether people might have had enough Benedict Cumberbatch for now, but whether there is any left. Currently his life looks like this:

Saturday 8 November Tea preferences revealed

For those still mourning the news of his engagement to Sophie Hunter, Saturday brings hints of the dark, controlling atmosphere that awaits her when the marriage gets into its stride. Cumberbatch, it is revealed, enjoys an ordinary cup of sweet milky tea now and then, but the rest of the time is very exacting. Squeezing the bag with a teaspoon, for instance, is no joke. “You’re out the front door if you do that,” he reportedly said.

Sunday 9 November
Sometimes he draws things

There had been talk before, but nothing concrete until Sunday morning when, on being pressed by Andrew Marr, Cumberbatch admitted that he sometimes draws things with a pen. He would also love to paint things, he says, if he had “the space and a bit more time”.

Monday 10 November
Doesn’t go to Gloucester Cathedral

Besides having opinions about tea, few things are so quintessentially English as not going to Gloucester Cathedral. At one stage, however, it looks as though Cumberbatch might break with tradition to do some filming for the BBC. Vans arrive with technical crew and equipment, but by the end of the weekend it is clear to the people of Gloucester that no amount of vans are a substitute for Cumberbatch.

Tuesday 11 November
Conventional announcement explained

Cumberbatch breaks his six-day silence to reveal, as was widely expected, that he announced his engagement in the Times because that’s the normal thing to do. “It’s what I would have done if I wasn’t famous,” he says, adding it to the list of conventional activities he still enjoys, including going to sleep, eating breakfast and sneezing.

Wednesday 12 November
May be related to Turing

After a period of research into his family tree, it is reported that the near-mathematical certainty of any present-day Englishman being at least the 17th cousin of Alan Turing does indeed apply to Cumberbatch as well. Indeed, the fact that ancestry.co.uk had to go back to the 14th century to link them shows that the actor and the man he plays in The Imitation Game are unusually distantly related.