You are quite right SayItAgain it is EC I had in mind. John was going to give me a lesson on night flying EC this evening but we had scrub it due to ice all over the exposed parts of the airframe.
Some interesting discussions in the FROST thread. It includes a very useful URL for a NASA training module on dealing with ice.
Finding a good place where it can catch the sun and thaw the ice gets my vote at the moment. Splashing warm glycol about seems a great way of dealing with ice if there is hard standing everywhere with effective drainage. However, for aircraft parked on grass it is probably not good for the airfield since I suspect it would poison the ground.