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Cucumber O’Clock

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A snail’s dilemma. Can Gary learn when cucumber is coming—and arrive before it does?

Cucumber O’Clock: A Snail’s Dilemma — illustrated snail project artwork.

This project escaped from Concepts on 30 September 2026. Read the original questionable idea →

An idea about temporal awareness escaped Concepts and took up residence in an old vivarium. This is the record of what happens next: preparing Garyville, caring for its residents and finding out what a small, carefully observed experiment can—and cannot—tell us.

Development Log

The refurbished Splatarium with deep substrate, cork bark, branches, leaf litter, foliage and a shallow water dish.
The Splatarium, now occupied by its maintenance department.

In Which The Staff Arrive Before Management

The Splatarium has residents. Not Garys. The springtails have arrived: several hundred microscopic employees preparing the workplace before management arrives.

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Garyville before refurbishment: the former gecko vivarium filled with artificial foliage and bark.
Garyville, pre-refurb. Formerly the Splatarium. Surrounding clutter digitally tidied.

In Which I Decide This Might Actually Be Possible

This started, as many questionable decisions do, with me having half an hour to spare. A little research, an unused vivarium and some prematurely employed springtails later, the Concept had escaped.

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STATUS HISTORY

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