Christian was born in 1974, and then everything kind of went blurry. Student summers were whittled away washing up at a local butchers in Glastonbury and later packing shoes in a nearby warehouse. A short annual stint as a night security guard at a music festival brought some other interesting happenings which were still blurry but much darker. He launched himself onto the world stage in early 2001 by starting the world's first global plastic duck race at ifoundaduck.com. 500 plastic ducks (each with a unique ID number) were left lying around London; as people found them they reported the find on the website and then left the duck elsewhere. Although his debut novel is still relatively obscure, the antics of the plastic ducks all around the world have appeared in newspapers across the globe.

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After attempting to persuade the Vatican to launch a range of 'Pope's Own' supermarket goods, he emerged from Epsom with a degree in Graphic Design and became a designer for a large IT company in London.