Steve Royle remembering dad’s rules and regulations in our Austin Maxi

I wish there was a font that could express just how hot and sweaty I feel right now!

Phew! feeling overheated

I’ve driven more than 1,000 miles this week in a car that has no air conditioning, writes Britain's Got Talent star, Steve Royle.

I know what you are thinking ... “How old is his car?” If truth be known it would perhaps be more accurate to say the air conditioning in the car is not working properly.

I am not going to say what make of car it is. Suffice to say that the animal it is named after is certainly more used to the sweltering heat than I am!

Cars from the ark

It is hard to believe that back in the day when I was young hardly any cars were equipped with air conditioning, it was in those days a luxury item, a bit like cup holders and a stereo.

In those days you simply had to make do with winding down a window in the car.

Please tone it down

My wife often complains to me that I talk too loud and she puts it down to old age hearing problems, but I reckon it is from all those years of conditioning, trying to communicate with my two siblings with four windows wound half way down.

Rules, rules, rules!

I say “half down” because that was my dad’s golden rule of travel back then, that the windows be fully wound down on B roads but only half way dow