Hi, and thanks for the replies. I failed to check the 'notify me...' box so I didn't know you'd posted. Sorry. I've overcome some of my struggles with the circle tool. The manual helped a bit and just trying helped a bit. It seems the tool 'remembers' how you last left it or something. I've kinda go...

This is my first half hour with inkscape. I'm trying to create a couple of concentric circles with text between them - like the rim of a coin. I created the first circle. I managed to get the text to 'follow the path' of that and go round it. Then I tried to create a second larger circle. But it won...