I mostly made beds, bathed patients and measured jugs of urine.
But anyone who has spent a sticky-tabled evening in the company of jugs of blue booze knows that Orwell's desire for a place in which "drunks and rowdies never seem to find their way" is less successful the later it gets in the day – and Orwell surely would not have approved of its habit of hiring people on zero-hours contracts.
As far away as Delhi, India's capital, windows rattled and water sloshed in jugs, and the metro service was suspended.
Like Britain, it protests against EU regulation of things like olive-oil jugs in restaurants and argues that "ever closer union" in Europe has gone far enough.
Often one or other would paint Angelica, arranging her like another still life among the pears and jugs of flowers.
At lunchtime, like the others, she ate her own food from her own cupboard (identified by the feel of the carvings under her hands), neatly stocked with plates, jugs, coffee and jam.
Unlike oil, which can be transported in anything from gallon jugs to gigantic tankers, gas usually requires extensive, expensive pipelines to be in place from the wellhead all the way through to customers' homes.As a result, one response that high prices produce in other commodity markets—a diversion of supplies from places where prices are lower cannot happen easily.
Drunk from Stone Age jugs or Etruscan amphoras, fermented sugars have brought cheer for more than 12,000 years.
Yet he is known almost exclusively for his luminous, pale paintings of bottles, bowls and jugs.
It will take time, he says, to change the culture of "an administration that has for generations believed that its purpose is to create legislation".As an example of the overreach he wants to tackle, Mr Timmermans ridicules a failed attempt by the EU to regulate the use of olive-oil jugs in restaurants.
In a paper on the subject Dan O'Hara, a philosopher of technology, gives the example of pottery jugs from Zaire, the handles of which are shaped in imitation of handles of traditional jugs customarily made of cord.
