I cannot access dock, no desktop, time or battery icons?!!!

My laptop is only 3.5 years old. Normally whenever I'm informed there's no space on my hard-drive eventually I copy things onto an external hard-drive. I hadn't got round to doing this last time this message came up. The next day I turned on my laptop, the dock isn't there, my desktop is blue with no files on it apart from my stickies, the time and battery icon at the top right aren't there. I have tried hiding and making the dock visible again to no avail. Also If I delete a sticky, next time I turn my laptop on it's back.
I can plug my external hard-drive in and access things from there, and I can open Safari from 'recent items' as the icons on the top left are visible, but I cannot open finder. No Apple app's work, itunes, facetime etc again accessed through 'recent items'
Help please?!!! There are no Genius appointments in central London?!

When you start in SafeBoot, do you have more access to the desktop?
Booting into this should use less system resources and perhaps may
allow you to look into Console Utility and others, including Disk Utility
as the running system sees it. Logs in Console should tell you details.
Maybe too many.
Do you have a current backup of everything on the Mac's hard disk drive?
I'd suspect the internal HDD may be failing, as it would be about time.
A few years of moderate use, and one that has survived that long is due.
You may be able to boot the computer so as to see Recovery and run
OS X Utilities from there to use Disk Utility on the computer's HDD with
it unmounted. This could be OK to verify, and repair the hard drive.
Be careful to not erase the hard drive from this version of Disk Utility.
Even with a Time Machine backup, you'd still be best to have another
external hard disk drive with its own power supply, capable of support
to a Clone; a bootable complete copy of your Mac's HDD & system.
Depending on what OS X version and MacBook specs, the direction
you may take could vary. This information is basic to a reply...
Good luck!

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