Michael spent his early years being a space cadet, Apache Indian, South Seas pirate and the (utterly fearless) Sheriff of Dead Twig Gulch. Despite this busy and demanding lifestyle, he still found time to pop in to his local junior school and give his class teacher, Mr 'Chalky-Chops' Chigley, invaluable tips, like which end of his school whistle to put into his mouth, and how it wasn't cool to try to eat his register just because he sometimes couldn't do really difficult guzintas - e.g how many times 7 guzinta 49 - the answer to which, as we all know, is 7 (apart from Chalky Chops Chigley, of course).