I built with my own hands a large part of two cottages and extensive kitchen-garden walls, and made all kinds of rockeries and waterworks and a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity...Thus I never had a dull or idle moment from morning till midnight, and...dwelt at peace within my habitation.

Oh yeah! He was doing grreat!  That's why he titled this chapter "The Locust Years". Churchill, The Gathering Storm. Never a dull moment out of power in The Locust Years building those rockeries in The Gathering Storm.